A PLAINS QUILLED COWHORN LADLE
PROBABLY ARAPAHO
with rounded bowl and short tapering handle wrapped in dyed orange and (faded) purple porcupine quills, with a thin quill-wrapped hide strap attached to top Length: 7¾ in. (19.2 cm.)
Lot Essay
See Miles, 1963, p. 59, fig. 1.345, for a similar example.
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