About the Artwork
Spoon
ca. 1880
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Native American
Yurok
Elk antler
Overall: 1 3/4 × 8 1/4 × 2 1/2 inches (4.4 × 21 × 6.4 cm)
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Indigenous Americas
Founders Society Purchase, Director's Discretionary Fund; gifts from Leon H. Frank, H.J.L. Frank, Mary F. Stevens, Mrs. Fremont Woodruff, Mrs. Ellen S. Whitall, William P. Stevens, the family of Henry Glover Stevens, Mrs. Sidney Corbett, Jr., James A. Crawford, Mrs. Eugene Beauharnais Gibbs by exchange
1998.26
Public Domain
Markings
#A7119-c
Provenance
probably Adelaide de Menil, daughter of Dominique and Jean de Menil.(W.E. Channing & Company, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA);
1998-present, purchase by the the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Yurok, Native American, Spoon, ca. 1880, elk antler. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Director's Discretionary Fund; gifts from Leon H. Frank, et a., 1998.26.
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