Knife

Museum number:
2-19199
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.854
Description:
Steel knife in curved antler handle. So-called long handled crooked knife for wood-working.
Donor:
Ellinor C. Davidson and George Davidson
Collection place:
Point Barrow, North Slope Borough, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Point Barrow
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
R. A. Marr
Collection date:
1883
Object type:
ethnography
Accession date:
1945
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 27.5 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: cf. Murdoch pp. 157-9.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Knife, accession number 2-19199, described as Steel knife in curved antler handle. So-called long handled crooked knife for wood-working.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Knife, accession number 2-19199, described as Steel knife in curved antler handle. So-called long handled crooked knife for wood-working.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Knife, accession number 2-19199, described as Steel knife in curved antler handle. So-called long handled crooked knife for wood-working.

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