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Feast Ladle
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Wood Spoon

Lodzi Wood Spoon
This wooden spoon, made around the same time as the Woodlands ladle, was carved by people in central Africa.

Wood Spoon
North East Zambia
Lodzi
98.9.3

 

Horn Spoon

Plains Horn Spoon
This spoon, made of animal horn by Native American Plains people, was carved about the same time as the Woodlands ladle.

Horn Spoon
North American Plains
92.10

 

Wood Feast Spoon With Bird Effigy

Chippewa Wood Feast Spoon with Bird Effigy
Here is a similar ladle, also made by a Woodlands tribe, in the Institute's collection.

Wood Feast Spoon with Bird Effigy
North American Chippewa
89.89.1

 

Oliver Baker Silver Spoon

English Silver Spoon
This silver spoon was made by an artist from England at the beginning of the twentieth-century.

Oliver Baker
English
Silver Spoon, 1903
L99.184.11

 

Arthur Black Cloud Ladle

Mesquakie Ladle
This Ladle was carved very recently, in 1986, by Arthur Black Cloud, a member of the Mesquakie tribe of Iowa.

Arthur Black Cloud Ladle
North American
Mesquakie
91.146

 

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