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Knife
Object Number 20-9-10/87542
Display Title Knife
Descriptions
Object Description Knife; wooden handled, with ring on one end, secured to nail with sinew fastening.
Inventory Description Knife, metal blade ring handle, lashed with rawhide to carved wood handle
Classification
  • Knife
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Tlingit
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska
Materials Wood, Steel, Rawhide
Dimensions Overall: 29.8 x 3.2 x 2.3 cm (11 3/4 x 1 1/4 x 7/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 20-9-10/87542
Provenance
Collector Henry Moses (?)
Donor Mrs. W. Scott Fitz (1920)

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