Spoon

94-20-3

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 94-20-3
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Date Made ca. 1920
Section American
Materials Silver | Copper
Iconography Owl | Fish
Description

Metal spoon of copper once plated with silver. Small bowl tapers to thick handle depicting incised fish out of whose mouth comes an owl with wings and head at the handle tip. Owl's facial elements raised. Back side of spoon undecorated. Silver plate most visible on reverse.

Credit Line Gift of Marshall J. Becker, 1994

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