Sealaska - Publications - Horn Spoon Collection

In 2002, a researcher from the Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology at Harvard University conducted the first known study of a collection of horn spoons carved by Southeast Alaska Natives more than a century ago. The 40 elaborately carved feast spoons are made of sheep and goat horn and date from circa 1860 to 1900, said researcher Dr. Anne-Marie Victor-Howe, an anthropologist with the museum and visiting scholar to SHI...(more). The following slide show features preliminary information and photos of the collection by Victor-Howe. Click here for additional photos.
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	1. Tlingit Mountain goat, mountain sheep horn, metal Collected by Edward Fast, 1867-68, Alaska 23.8 cm


	2. Tlingit Mountain goat, mountain sheep, copper Collected by Edward Fast, 1867-68, Alaska 21.5 cm


	4. Tlingit Mountain goat horn, mountain sheep horn, copper Collected by Edward Fast, 1867-68, Alaska 23 cm


	5. Tlingit Mountain goat, mountain sheep horn, copper, metal Collected by Edward Fast, 1867-68, Alaska 22.7 cm


	6. Mountain goat horn, metal Collected by Lt. George Thornton Emmons, Dixon’s Entrance, British Columbia 25.8 cm


	7. Mountain goat horn, metal, copper Collected by Lt. George Thornton Emmons, Dixon’s Entrance, British Columbia 23.3 cm


	8. Mountain goat horn, mountain sheep horn, abalone, copper Collected by Edward Fast, 1867-68, Alaska 27.2 cm


	9. Tlingit Mountain goat horn Collected by Edward Fast, 1867-68, Alaska Donor: Edward Fast, 1869 16 cm


	10. Tlingit Mountain goat horn Collected by Edward Fast, 1867-68, Alaska 16.6 cm


	11. Tlingit Mountain goat horn Collected by Edward Fast, 1867-68, Alaska 19 cm


	12. Haida Mountain goat horn Collected by Edward Fast, 1867-68, Alaska 15 cm


	13. Tlingit or Haida Mountain goat, mountain sheep horn, abalone Collected by Mrs. William Harris Arnold 1892-1937, Alaska 22.4 cm


	14. Tlingit Mountain goat horn The collector is unknown 15.5 cm

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