Object Details
- Collection History
- Items in this set were purchased from several Coushatta individuals (Louisa Williams Robinson, Paul Williams, Susie Williams, and Celestine Batiste) in 1908 by anthropologist Mark Raymond Harrington (1882-1971, MAI staff member) during fieldwork sponsored by George Heye.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Coushatta (Koasati)
- Previous owner
- Louisa Williams (Louisa Williams Robinson), Coushatta (Koasati), 1855-1932
- Paul Williams, Coushatta (Koasati)
- Celestine Batiste, Coushatta (Koasati)
- Susie Williams, Coushatta (Koasati)
- Collector
- Mark Raymond Harrington (M. R. Harrington/MRH), Non-Indian, 1882-1971
- Object Name
- Spoon
- Media/Materials
- Cow horn
- Techniques
- Carved
- Object Type
- Food/Beverage Serving
- Indigenous Term
- waka lape fu lo'
