spoon (food processing & storage)

Spoon made of horn or antler with a large oval, shallow bowl, which is cream in colour and has an incised design of a man on a sleigh being pulled by an elk or reindeer. The handle is short and dark brown, and has five pierced holes. Three of the holes have small circles of horn or bone hanging from them.

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