Knife

Museum number:
2-2949
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
30 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.26
Description:
snow, double-edged steel blade fashioned from large file. Willow root binding on the handle, whalebone butt, copper rivets at base of blade. Manufacture: steel file heated, beaten into shape and sharpened. Indigenous name for object "chavik.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Mackenzie River, Northwest Territories, Canada
Verbatim coll. place:
Canada; Northwestern Territories; Mackenzie River
Culture or time period:
Kook-Pugunoot
Collector:
H. H. Cushing
Collection date:
1901
Object type:
ethnography
Accession date:
December 16, 1902
Context of use:
Used for cutting snow blocks for snow houses. Purchased by Cushing for $7.00
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 45.1 centimeters
Comment:
References: see Cushing's notes.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Knife, accession number 2-2949, described as snow, double-edged steel blade fashioned from large file. Willow root binding on the handle, whalebone butt, copper rivets at base of blade. Manufacture: steel file heated, beaten into shape and sharpened. Indigenous name for object "chavik.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Knife, accession number 2-2949, described as snow, double-edged steel blade fashioned from large file. Willow root binding on the handle, whalebone butt, copper rivets at base of blade. Manufacture: steel file heated, beaten into shape and sharpened. Indigenous name for object "chavik.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Knife, accession number 2-2949, described as snow, double-edged steel blade fashioned from large file. Willow root binding on the handle, whalebone butt, copper rivets at base of blade. Manufacture: steel file heated, beaten into shape and sharpened. Indigenous name for object "chavik.

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