Wooden, totemic carving on handle representing a hat above a face. Bowl carved with cross-hatched designs. Alder wood.
Donor:
Frederick J. Moller
Collection place:
Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Tlingit
Collector:
Annie Moller
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Spoons
Accession date:
1932
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 30 centimeters
Comment:
Native name: "sley-neyt-s^s" (wooden spoon) - Charles Brown.
Loans:
S1945-1946 #4: Winfield Scott Wellington (March 11, 1946–October 28, 1955), S1951-1952 #1: University of California, Los Angeles (March 15, 1952–returned by 1957), and S1963-1964 #91: Haida-Tlingit Organization, Oakland (May 30, 1964–June 1, 1964)