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A HAIDA MOUNTAIN GOAT HORN SPOON
with sharply curved oval bowl affixed with two metal rivets to the sharply curved and tapering handle, a large standing bear at the base, with a whale fluke in its wide dentated mouth, surmounted by an unidentified creature with long protruding tongue, a wolf at top, the reverse with red painted inscription, 05.297, and black ink inscription, 742
Length: 10 in. (25.3 cm.)
with sharply curved oval bowl affixed with two metal rivets to the sharply curved and tapering handle, a large standing bear at the base, with a whale fluke in its wide dentated mouth, surmounted by an unidentified creature with long protruding tongue, a wolf at top, the reverse with red painted inscription, 05.297, and black ink inscription, 742
Length: 10 in. (25.3 cm.)
Provenance
Ex-collection: The Brooklyn Museum
Collected from the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, by noted anthropologist, Dr. Charles Frederick Newcombe, for the Brooklyn Museum in 1912.
Collected from the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, by noted anthropologist, Dr. Charles Frederick Newcombe, for the Brooklyn Museum in 1912.