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Stabbing knife, steel blade and wooden case (lance point with wooden case?)
Stabbing knife, steel blade and wooden case (lance point with wooden case?)
Object Number 88-51-10/50100
Display Title Stabbing knife, steel blade and wooden case (lance point with wooden case?)
Descriptions
Object Description Stabbing knife, steel blade and wooden case (lance point with wooden case?)
Inventory Description Spear, metal point, bone socket, wood shaft with red pigment, wood scabbard
Classification
  • Knife
Department Ethnographic
Date 1800-1888
Culture
  • Nunivaarmiut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska / Bethel Census Area / Nunivak Island
Materials Metal, Bone, Wood
Dimensions Overall: 25 x 2.9 x 1.8 cm (9 13/16 x 1 1/8 x 11/16 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object 50100 / SI. 16355 / 1103 / Nunivak / W.H. Dall
Provenance
Collector William Healey Dall (?)
Donor Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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