Spoon, from a Four Piece Silverware Set from Sitka, Alaska
Yéilnaawú and Kíchxhaak (Jim Jacobs), Tlingit, Khoosk’eidí clan, Xaas hít house / American, 1846 - 1941
Tlingit
Northwest Coast
1867-about 1897
Coin silver
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Warren Prosser Smith, Class of 1913
169.30.24702.4
Geography
Place Made: Sitka, United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Tools and Equipment: Food Service
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Northwest Coast
Not on view
Inscriptions
Each item marked "Sitka"
Course History
ANTH 7.05, Animals and Humans, Laura Ogden, Winter 2022
GEOG 31.01, Postcolonial Geographies, Erin Collins, Winter 2022
ANTH 50.05, Environmental Archaeology, Madeleine McLeester, Winter 2022
ANTH 50.05, Environmental Archaeology, Madeleine McLeester, Winter 2022
ARTH 5.01, Introduction to Contemporary Art, Mary Coffey and Chad Elias, Winter 2022
ANTH 3.01, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Summer 2022
ANTH 3.01, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Summer 2022
SPAN 65.15, Wonderstruck: Archives and the Production of Knowledge in an Unequal World, Silvia Spitta and Barbara Goebel, Summer 2022
Exhibition History
This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World, Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 5–July 22, 2022.
Provenance
Collected by Caldwell W. Tuttle (1842-1919), Commissioner of Sitka, Alaska, 1897-1900; to his nephew Warren Prosser Smith, Dartmouth Class of 1913 (1890-1971) New York, New York; given to present collection, 1969. (donation arranged through the donor's daughter Joan Paris Smith Rath (1916-1979)
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