Knot slipper
- Museum number:
- 2-4172
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020004172
- Alternate number:
- x-318 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.167
- Description:
- Made of ivory (Nelson's "marlinspike"), (Bodkin for slipping knots in nets). Groove in handle.
- Donor:
- Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
- Collection place:
- Cavia, Seward Peninsula, Nome Borough
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska; Seward Peninsula; Cavia
- Culture or time period:
- Malemiut Eskimo
- Collector:
- Rudolph Neumann
- Collection date:
- 1898
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Knots (ropework)
- Function:
- 1.1 Hunting and Fishing
- Accession date:
- 1904
- Context of use:
- Used to tie and slip meshes, and to change mesh size, while making nets.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- 12 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-