Spoon

About this object

Narrative

Originally collected by Reverend Smith Stanley Osterhout, a methodist minister who was sent to work in northern BC from 1893 to 1903.

Physical description

Small goat horn spoon. The bowl is shallow, long and narrow, with curving sides that bulge slightly at midpoint. The tip inclines. The handle and bowl are made from a single piece of horn, flowing from the bowl’s bottom, and at a sharp angle on neck top. The handle is slightly curved, and narrows toward the tip. The spoon is undecorated.