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Spoon with Handle in Shape of Bird's Head

Culture: Native American, Plains
Medium: Buffalo horn
Dates: 1801-1900
Dimensions: 9 1/4 x 3 3/4 in. (23.5 x 9.5 cm)
Collections: Arts of the Americas
Museum Location: This item is on view in Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
Accession Number: 63.201.1
Credit Line: Dick s. Ramsay Fund
Image: Overall, 63.201.1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2004

Catalogue Description: This extremely graceful spoon is carved from one piece of horn that has beautiful amber and brown striations in its coloring. The bowl is very thin and large. The handle is a round delicate tube that curves from the bowl and after a length curves back almost 180 degrees to culminate in a water bird head with a long open beak.

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