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
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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Wardwell, Allen. Yakutat South Indian Art of the Northwest Coast. Exh. cat., Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, 1964, cat. no. 222 [identified as BB2291].
Hawthorne, Audrey. Art of the Kwakiutl Indians. Vancouver, 1988, p. 226.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Haida, Native American, Feast Spoon, ca. 1800, horn and copper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Frederick Stearns, 72.476.
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