Knife
- Museum number:
- 2-1347
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020001347
- Accession number:
- Acc.46
- Description:
- 7 whale's flukes carved on base of handle. Made of ivory.
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Northwest Bering Sea, Alaska
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska; Northwest Bering Sea
- Culture or time period:
- Alaskan Eskimo
- Collector:
- Charles L. Hall
- Collection date:
- ca. 1895
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Carvings (visual works)
- Accession date:
- August 12, 1902
- Context of use:
- Story (snow) knife. Children's toy to make designs in snow, cut out snow animals.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 25.8 centimeters
- Loans:
- S1957-1960 [XXX Wellington]: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (1957–1960)
- Legacy documentation:
-