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Object Number
38-44-10/12762
Display Title
Crooked knife with carved wooden handle representing a hand.
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Woodworking knife, bent steel blade, wooden hand-shaped handle, leather wrapped
Classification
- Woodworking
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Cree
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
Canada
/
Ontario
Additional Geographic Terms
Missanbie
Materials
Steel, Fiber, Leather, Brass, Wood
Dimensions
Overall: 28.2 x 3.7 x 2.4 cm (11 1/8 x 1 7/16 x 15/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
38-44-10/12762
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Henry H. Richardson in memory of Theodore Jewett Eastman, Class of 1901, A.B. 1901, M.D. 1905, 1938
Provenance
Provenance
Dr. Theodore Jewett Eastman
(1903)
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