Collection Name	Ethnology
Identifier	SJ-I-A-880
Title	Souvenir teaspoon with Northwest Coast formline designs.
Description	Accession Number: 436 a Description: silver; repousse Accession Number: 436 a Description: silver; repousse Made: Sitka Descriptive Narrative: Coin-silver (?) souvenir teaspoon with Northwest Coast formline designs. At the top of the handle are two (2) repoussed bear's heads. Immediately below the bears heads are stylized form line claws. The lower claw is touching the nose of a fish figure. Just above the lower claw is an ovoid which encloses these marks ¦ ( (This varies from spoon I-A-881, which has in this same ovoid, but with only the ¦ ). Cross-hatching fills the space between the claws. A long triangle with six (6) curved hatch marks rests above the head and back of the fish form. The front of the bowl is filled with form lines, and other geometric-like designs. On the back of the bowl in script is Sitka 1892.
Creator	Walton, Rudolph
Subject.TGM	Spoons Silver Silverware Silverwork
Subject.LCSH	Tlingit art Tlingit sculpture
Subject.Local	Alaska Natives--Southeast Alaska--Tlingit
Location	Sitka (Alaska)
Region	Southeast Alaska
Time Period	1867 to 1896
Date.original	1892
Type	Physical Object
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Holding Institution	Sheldon Jackson Museum; 104 College Drive, Sitka, AK 99835-7657; Phone: (907) 747-8981 Fax: (907) 747-3004
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Souvenir teaspoon with Northwest Coast formline designs.

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