Heirlooms

Feast Spoon Feast Spoon
Tlingit?, mid 1800s, purchased 1876

Special spoons made from steam-bent mountain goat (or sheep) horn or wood were brought out to use at great feasts. The handles were usually delicately carved with crest animals from family stories about their ancestors' legendary encounters.

Mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus) horn, brass?; L 25.0 x W 6.4 cm; 9010-3, gift of Oliver McClintock