COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
Record
AMICA ID:
BCM_.51.15.1
AMICA Library Year:
2003
Object Type:
Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
Description:
Spoon carved from a section of cow horn, having a long, deep bowl and a thin handle with a triangular knob at the tip; area of the handle between the knob and the bowl is covered with braided quills, minutely worked and dyed red; attached to the base of the knob are three leather pendants, wrapped with yellow dyed quills and having bent tin cones with red dyed horse tail fringes at the ends; also attached to the same spot is a leather loop wrapped with red dyed quills; bowl semi-translucent.
Creator Nationality:
Native American
Creator Name-CRT:
Arapaho, Oklahoma
Title:
Decorated Horn Ladle
View:
Full view
Creation Date:
Late 19th century
Creation Start Date:
1875
Creation End Date:
1900
Materials and Techniques:
Horn (buffalo), quill (porcupine), leather, metal (tin), dyed hair (horse), pigment
Creation Place:
Oklahoma, United States
Dimensions:
Length: 9 7/8"; width: 3 1/4"
AMICA Contributor:
Brooklyn Children's Museum
Owner Location:
Brooklyn, New York, USA
ID Number:
51.15.1
Credit Line:
Gift of Paul S. Brinsmade, 1951
Related Image Identifier Link:
BCM_.51-15-1.tif
