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Title: Hupa elkhorn spoon
Contributing Institution: History San Jose Research Library
Collection: History San Jose Online Catalog
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Description: Carved elkhorn spoon (also once described as "thin oak"). Spoon is brown, with bowl broken and one detached piece. Handle has circular end with perforation in center; bowl has front edge with row of shallow points as though to double as a fork. Attributed to the Hupa people.
Type: image
Identifier: 9AC9D98C-E3DA-4613-AF7B-627275336069
1978-561
Subject: Indians of North America
Spoons
Tools (LCSH)
Eating & drinking

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