Knife

Museum number:
2-2829a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21022829a@2cb
Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
Antler and steel wood-working. Also called long-handled crooked knife. a) Knife: caribou antler handler, iron blade, rawhide lashing, b) rawhide sheath.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Lower Yukon, Yukon, Yukon-Koyukuk Borough
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Lower Yukon
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:
a)— length 35 centimeters and b)— length 9.3 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: cf. Murdoch pp. 157-9.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Knife, accession number 2-2829a,b, described as Antler and steel wood-working. Also called long-handled crooked knife. a) Knife: caribou antler handler, iron blade, rawhide lashing, b) rawhide sheath.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Knife, accession number 2-2829a,b, described as Antler and steel wood-working. Also called long-handled crooked knife. a) Knife: caribou antler handler, iron blade, rawhide lashing, b) rawhide sheath.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Knife, accession number 2-2829a,b, described as Antler and steel wood-working. Also called long-handled crooked knife. a) Knife: caribou antler handler, iron blade, rawhide lashing, b) rawhide sheath.

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