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Bone knife
Object Number 93-1-10/49951
Display Title Bone knife
Descriptions
Inventory Description Knife, carved bone
Classification
  • Knife
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Eskimo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska
Materials Bone
Dimensions Overall: 19.2 x 2.2 x 0.6 cm (7 9/16 x 7/8 x 1/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 49951
Provenance
Collector Unknown
Donor Prof. Frederic Ward Putnam (01/01/1893)

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