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Woman's knife
Object Number 88-51-10/50454
Display Title Woman's knife
Descriptions
Inventory Description Knife, ulu, squared metal blade inserted into carved wood handle, lashed w/ sine
Classification
  • Knife
Department Ethnographic
Date 19th century
Culture
  • Tlingit
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska
Materials Metal, Wood, Sinew, Resin
Dimensions Overall: 7.8 x 13.6 x 1.4 cm (3 1/16 x 5 3/8 x 9/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 50454 & [88773]
Provenance
Collector James G. Swan (?)
Donor Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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