Spoon with Handle in Shape of Bird's Head
Arts of the Americas
On View: Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
CULTURE
Plains
MEDIUM
Buffalo horn
DATES
1801–1900
DIMENSIONS
9 1/4 x 3 3/4 in. (23.5 x 9.5 cm) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS
Arts of the Americas
ACCESSION NUMBER
63.201.1
CREDIT LINE
Dick s. Ramsay Fund
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.
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is on view in Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
CAPTION
Plains. Spoon with Handle in Shape of Bird's Head, 1801–1900. Buffalo horn, 9 1/4 x 3 3/4 in. (23.5 x 9.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Dick s. Ramsay Fund, 63.201.1. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 63.201.1.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 63.201.1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2004
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