Knife
- Museum number:
- 1-12293
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010012293
- Alternate number:
- 1485 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.303, Acc.304, Acc.307, and Acc.310
- Description:
- Biface, obsidian, lanceolate shape. (ctap cuwalis).
- Donor:
- Samuel A. Barrett
- Collection place:
- Klamath Reservation, Klamath County, Oregon
- Culture or time period:
- Klamath Lake and Modoc
- Collector:
- Samuel A. Barrett
- Collection date:
- 1907
- Materials:
- Obsidian
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Knives (stone tools)
- Function:
- 5.2 Magic: Objects Associated with Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural agencies
- Accession date:
- 1907
- Context of use:
- Used by doctors to eat. Also used to cut (scarify) patient. Never used by or for ordinary person or purpose.
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Dimensions:
- length 14.1 centimeters and width 3.3 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-