Spoon

NA1426

From: Kuskokwim River

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA1426
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Kuskokwim River
Culture Area Arctic Culture Area
Section American
Materials Wood
Description

Wooden spoon coated in red and black pigment. Hand with hole in palm carved on the underside of the bowl. 2 animals painted in black on the interior of the bowl. Handle has a groove down the center with a black parallelogram painted on either side below the end. The handle end is bent and painted red.

Credit Line Alaska Ethnological Expedition, George Byron Gordon, 1907

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