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Carving knife
Object Number 88-51-10/50352
Display Title Carving knife
Descriptions
Object Description Carving knife
Inventory Description Knife, carved bone handle, perforated, chipped stone blade
Classification
  • Knife
Department Ethnographic
Date 1800-1888
Culture
  • Navugmiut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska / North Slope Burough
Additional Geographic Terms Point Barrow
Materials Bone, Stone
Dimensions Overall: 16.3 x 3.9 x 1.1 cm (6 7/16 x 1 9/16 x 7/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 50352, 89643, 1255 / Ooglaamie 1883 P.H. Ray, U.S.A.
Provenance
Collector Lt. P. H. Ray (1883)
Donor Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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