File:History of Inventions USNM 09 Spoon.png
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English: No. 1. Unmodified shells used for spoons. Mexico and California, 174,494, 131,163
No. 2. Modified shell and rind of gourd. New Guinea and British Guiana, 73,369, 45,669 No. 3. Spoons with projections designed for grasping. Tortoise shell and sea shell. Utah and Florida 77,160, 14,475, 5,437 No. 4. Spoons with worked-out short handles. Shell and horn. Tennessee and Wyoming. Spoons with well-developed handles. Alaska, and Wyoming 165,912, 32,053, 56,011, 165,893 No. 5. Clamshell clamped in wooden handle. Alaska 168, 368 No. 6. Spoon with elaborately carved handle of horn joined to bowl. Alaska, 88,907 No. 7. Spoon painted and decorated with geometric and conventional figures in black and red. Alaska 37,119 No. 8. Spoons of metal. Bronze spoon, Rome ; pewter spoon,England. Modern pewter spoon, England 101, 164, 175, 296 |
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| Source | Walter Hough (1922). Synoptic series of objects in the United States National Museum illustrating the history of inventions. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 60 (2404). 1-47, 56 pl. |
| Author | United States National Museum (Smithsonian Institution), Washington D.C. |
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