Spoon

77-6-5

From: United States of America

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 77-6-5
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Sioux
Provenience United States of America
Culture Area Great Plains Culture Area
Date Made 1876
Section American
Materials Buffalo Horn
Description

Buaffalo horn spoon. Plain bowl. Five small incised holes along handle and small knob at tip. Label with it says: "Buffalo spoon, captured by Colonel Royall's Command of Cavalry. Sioux Expedition summer of /76 - supposed to have been the property of the Indian Chief 'Big Mouth'." (Label in American Section accession notebook).

Length 28.6 cm
Credit Line Gift of Anne Rowland, 1977

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