Antler Spoon Decorated with an Incised Reindeer
Unidentified Sámi maker
collected early 20th century
Antler
Overall: 3 3/4 × 1 7/16 in. (9.6 × 3.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Glover Street Hastings III
181.2.26124
Geography
Place Made: Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Tools and Equipment: Food Service
Research Area
European History
Not on view
Course History
Art History 38.04, Food and Art: Global History, Nicola Camerlenghi, Spring 2023
Exhibition History
Reindeer People-A Fight to Survive, Norwich Public Library, Norwich, Vermont, January 19- February 16, 2001.
Provenance
Collected by Glover Street Hastings III, West Newton, Massachusetts and Bridgeton, Maine, 1920's-1930's; bequeathed to his daughter, Carlena Hastings Redfield (1888-1981), 1949; bequeathed to present collection [under the terms of her father's will], 1981.
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