Spoons and Spoon Mold

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pewter could be melted down and reused multiple times. Spoons similar to this example were found in the wreck of a pirate ship that sank off the coast of Massachusetts in 1717.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.

Metropolitan Museum of Art