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Crooked knife
Object Number 17-20-10/87234
Display Title Crooked knife
Descriptions
Object Description Crooked knife
Inventory Description Knife, metal blade attached to curved wood handle with rawhide
Classification
  • Knife
Department Ethnographic
Date 1885-1895
Culture
  • Naskapi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada / Newfoundland and Labrador / Labrador
Materials Wood, Metal, Leather, Rawhide
Dimensions Overall: 21 x 3.5 x 1.5 cm (8 1/4 x 1 3/8 x 9/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 87234
Provenance
Collector Prof. Leslie A. Lee (1891)
Donor Prof. Leslie A. Lee (1917)

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