Esquimo tool for carving

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Object Number 67-24-10/640

Display Title Esquimo tool for carving

Descriptions

Inventory Description Knife, metal blade, hafted to split bone handle, lashed with braided sinew

Classification

Knife

Department Ethnographic

Culture

Eskimo

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

North America / Canada / Northwest Territories

Additional Geographic Terms Anderson River

Materials Bone, Metal, Sinew

Dimensions Overall: 12.6 x 2 x 1.1 cm (4 15/16 x 13/16 x 7/16 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 640

Provenance

Collector Robert MacFarlane (?)

Donor Smithsonian Institution (1868)

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