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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	15. Tlingit Mountain goat horn Collected by Edward Fast, 1867-68, Alaska 16 cm


	16. Tlingit Mountain goat, mountain sheep horn, copper Collected by Edward Fast, 1867-68, Alaska 22.2 cm


	17. Tlingit Mountain goat horn, mountain, copper, metal Collected by Edward Fast, 1867-68, Alaska 24.8 cm


	18. Tlingit Mountain goat and mountain sheep, abalone, copper Collected by Eliot Elisofen, 1940-1972, Alaska 28.9 cm


	19. Tlingit Mountain goat, mountain sheep horn, copper Collected by Edward Fast, 1867-68, Alaska 21.4 cm


	20. Tlingit Mountain goat horn, copper Collected by Edward Fast, 1867-68, Alaska 25.8 cm


	21. Tlingit or Tsimshian Mountain goat horn, metal Collected by Lt. George Thornton Emmons, Dixon’s Entrance, British Columbia 23 cm


	22. Tlingit or Tsimshian Mountain goat horn, metal Collected by Lt. George Thornton Emmons, Dixon’s Entrance, British Columbia 27.1 cm


	23. Tlingit or Haida Mountain goat horn, abalone, copper Collected by Edward Fast, 1867-68, Alaska 20.8 cm


	24. Tlingit Mountain goat horn, copper Collected by Edward Fast, 1867-68, Alaska 20.8 cm


	25. Tlingit Mountain goat horn Collected by Edward Fast, 1867-68 18 cm


	26. Tlingit Mountain goat horn, Collected by Edward Fast, 1867-68, Alaska 22.5

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