Indigenous Ladles

[Bruce]

Francis Parkman, in his Oregon Trail work describes indigenous folks using large ladles (up to a quart in size) made from the horns of mountain sheep.  In would like to see a picture or drawing on such an item.  Any help here?

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[Luke MacGillie]

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Sheep+horn+ladle&qpvt=Sheep+horn+ladle&FORM=IGRE

The first few results are Northwest Coast style

[Habu]

Go here: http://anthro.amnh.org/north.  Enter "ladle" without the quote marks in the search box.  That will bring up ladles made from horn, wood, moose antler, etc.  Lots of stuff to look at!

[mr. no gold]

Ladles seem to be ubiquitous throughout, among the North American aboriginal peoples. They made them from horn, wood, and clay, depending on what materials were available. Any local museum with reasonable collections of artifacts should have some. And, as also mentioned above, there are web sites with photographs. Pick the region and desired style and search for it there, if the museum nearest to you doesn't have examples for you to examine.
Dick