Antler Spoon Decorated with an Incised Reindeer

Unidentified Sámi maker

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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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