Spoon, ca. 1880

  • Yurok, Native American

Elk antler

  • Overall (irreg): 2 1/2 × 5 3/8 × 2 1/4 inches (6.4 × 13.7 × 5.7 cm)

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

1998.28

Department

Indigenous Americas

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)

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 al., 1998.28.