Ladle
NA8469
From: United States of America | Alaska | Sitka
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | NA8469 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Tlingit |
| Provenience | United States of America | Alaska | Sitka |
| Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Mountain Sheep Horn |
| Description | Ladle or bowl made from a single piece of mountain sheep horn used by a sheep horn hunter (LSDA). Deeply concave bowl with two cracks along the edge. The handle is flat with a large circle and perforation at the end. At the base of the handle facing the bowl, a conical projection is carved. The projection has a thin circumferal groove below the point and a cross shape cut into the apex forming four small points. |
| Width | 8.3 cm |
| Credit Line | Wanamaker Expedition to the Northwest Coast; Louis Shotridge, 1918 |
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