Tlingit Spoon

Tlingit Spoon refers to ceremonial and utilitarian spoons crafted by the Tlingit people of the Pacific Northwest Coast, typically fashioned from mountain goat horn, wood, or bone and featuring intricate formline designs representing clan crests and spiritual figures. These objects are significant cultural artifacts that appear regularly at major auction houses such as Sotheby's, Christie's, and Bonhams as examples of Northwest Coast Indigenous art. Their creation spans centuries of Tlingit artistic tradition, with individual makers often unknown, as authorship was communal and tied to clan identity rather than individual attribution.