spoon;
ladle
- Museum number
- Am1976,03.48
- Description
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Spoon or ladle, steamed, bent and carved from two pieces of mountain goat horn. The handle is carved in standard Haida style, with a pointed finial, followed by a squatting long beaked bird such as a crane, over a small hawk [?] head sitting between the ears of a bear, from whose mouth a small mammal is emerging. The bowl is rivetted to the handle with two copper rivets, at either side, a brass rivet in the middle.
- Production date
- 1790-1890
- Dimensions
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Height: 5 centimetres
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Length: 24 centimetres
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Width: 6 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2014 1 Nov-2015 22 Feb, London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, "From the Forest to the Sea: Emily Carr in British Columbia"
- Condition
- Good.
- Acquisition date
- 1976
- Acquisition notes
- This object was purchased from Robert Bruce Inverarity in 1976. In his accompanying notes (Eth. Doc. 1225), he records that the object was purchased from dealer Julius Carlebach in 1948. Carlebach recounted that he had discovered and purchased the object in a San Fransico taxidermists shop in 1947.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1976,03.48
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Item 48 (Inverarity collection number)
