Spoon/Ladle
- Culture/People
- Tlingit
- Previous owner
- Mrs. Culstad, Tlingit [Angoon]
- Collector
- Axel Rasmussen, Non-Indian, 1886-1945
- Previous owner
- Wrangell Institute, 1932-
- Previous seller
- Wrangell Institute, 1932-
- Previous owner
- Susan Barrow (Mrs. Henry D. Barrow/Mrs. H. D. Barrow), Non-Indian, 1907-1988
- Henry D. Barrow (H.D. Barrow), Non-Indian, 1909-1987
- Seller
- Susan Barrow (Mrs. Henry D. Barrow/Mrs. H. D. Barrow), Non-Indian, 1907-1988
- Henry D. Barrow (H.D. Barrow), Non-Indian, 1909-1987
- Collection History
- Collected by Axel Rasmussen (1886-1945, a collector and superintendent of schools in Wrangell and Sitka, Alaska) from Mrs. Culstad (Angoon Tlingit) in 1936; lent by Axel Rasmussen to the Wrangell Institute (a Native boarding School in Wrangell, Alaska) at an unknown date and presumably transferred to the Institute's possession with Rasmussen's death in 1945; purchased by Susan D. Barrow (1907-1988, a teacher at the Wrangell Institute) and her husband Henry D. Barrow (1909-1987, a ship captain) from the Wrangell Institute in 1945; purchased by MAI from Mr. and Mrs. Barrow in 1948.
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- Place
- Alaska; USA
- See related items
- Tlingit
- Food/Beverage Serving
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 21/1635
- Barcode
- 211635.000
- Object Type
- Food/Beverage Serving
- Object Name
- Spoon/Ladle
- Media/Materials
- Mountain sheep horn
- Techniques
- Carved
- Record ID
- NMAI_226132