Made of ivory. Ivory set in conifer handle with spruce root wrapping.
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
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 18 centimeters
Loans:
S1961-1962 #53: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (March 15, 1961–March 15, 1962), S1965-1966 #88: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (June 1, 1966–June 1, 1966), S1967-1968 #87: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (February 2, 1968–February 5, 1968), and S1970-1971 #149: Department of Anthropology (Stanford Univ.)/Robert L. Hoover (June 25, 1971–July 9, 1971)