Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
St. Michael, St. Michael Island, Nome Borough
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; St. Michael
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1898
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Knives (stone tools)
Function:
6.2 Toys, Children’s Utensils, Objects used in the Education of Children
Accession date:
1904
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 36.2 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: "cf. Nelson, Pl. XCIV and p. 346
Loans:
S1961-1962 #53: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (March 15, 1961–March 15, 1962), S1961-1962 #78: Sather Gate Book Shop (May 21, 1962–June 5, 1962), S1962-1963 #61: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Vincent Evans (June 24, 1963–June 24, 1963), S1965-1966 #88: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (June 1, 1966–June 1, 1966), S1966-1967 #94: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (April 18, 1967–April 18, 1967), 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)