Wooden Spoon

Anishinaabe (Ojibwe / Chippewa)
Great Lakes Woodlands
Woodlands

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19th century

Wood and twine

Overall: 9 13/16 × 2 1/2 in. (24.9 × 6.4 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase

56.14.13599

Geography

Place Made: Leech Lake Reservation, United States, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Tools and Equipment: Food Service

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Woodlands

Not on view

Inscriptions

Marks: "1837 WMP"

Provenance

Mary Bonga, Leech Lake, Minnesota; collected by Albert Green Heath (1888-1953), 1929; sold to Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin, 1955; sold to present collection, 1956.

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