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Knife, steel blade
Object Number 03-1-10/62768
Display Title Knife, steel blade
Descriptions
Object Description Knife, steel blade. Crooked knife or carving tool.
Inventory Description Knife, curved metal blade, lashed to carved bone handle with leather
Classification
  • Knife
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Eskimo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska
Materials Bone, Steel, Leather, Moose antler, Sealskin
Dimensions Overall: 22.1 x 2.5 x 2.7 cm (8 11/16 x 1 x 1 1/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 62768
Provenance
Dealer Grace A. Nicholson (12/01/1903)
Collector Unknown (01/01/1870-01/01/1876)
Donor Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow (12/01/1903)

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