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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
/
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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