About the Artwork
Feast Spoon
ca. 1800
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Native american
Haida
Horn and copper
Overall: 11 1/4 × 2 1/2 × 3 1/4 inches (28.6 × 6.4 × 8.3 cm)
Carving
Indigenous Americas
Gift of Frederick Stearns
72.476
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
between 1871-1895, acquired by Frederick Stearns (1831-1907
Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1907-present, bequeathed 1907 to the Detroit Museum of Art (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Hawthorne, Audrey. Art of the Kwakiutl Indians. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, p. 226.
Art Institute of Chicago, "Yakutat South Indian Art of the Northwest Coast," exh. cat. by Allen Wardwell, 13 March - 26 April 1964, cat. no. 222 (identified as B2291)
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Haida, Native American, Feast Spoon, ca. 1800, horn and copper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Frederick Stearns, 72.476.
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