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Mountain Goat Horn Spoon

Date1908

Mediummountain goat horn

DimensionsOther: 6 × 39 cm (2 3/8 × 15 3/8 in.)

ClassificationsCeremonial Objects

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Haida

Paper Field ReferencesCMH VII-B-725

Object numberHRC 00725

Descriptionback of bowl carved and one circle incised. handle carved representing from bottom up an animal sharing tongue with sea monster which is holding the former with its hands. above this a man and a hawk, wings folded in front. shell in centre of one wing of hawk. bowl of sheep horn, held in place by copper wire, broken at the end.
collected in Skidegate

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