Blade
- Museum number:
- 2-45376
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020045376
- Accession number:
- Acc.2747
- Description:
- Boat hook blade (?); walrus ivory; 5 holes for haft.
- Donor:
- Harold J. Murphy
- Collection place:
- Alaska
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska
- Culture or time period:
- Alaskan Eskimo
- Collector:
- Harold J. Murphy
- Collection date:
- 1945-1971
- Taxon:
- Odobenus rosmarus
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Accession date:
- 1971
- Context of use:
- Probably boat hook blade; if not, pick blade used in gathering edible grass roots.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 26 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
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