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Woman's knife
Object Number 88-51-10/50294
Display Title Woman's knife
Descriptions
Object Description Woman's knife
Inventory Description Knife, ulu, metal blade, hafted to carved wood handle, rusted, highly worn
Classification
  • Knife
Department Ethnographic
Date 1800-1888
Culture
  • Asiatic Eskimo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska / Nome Census Area / St. Lawrence Island
Materials Wood, Metal
Dimensions Overall: 9.6 x 11.5 x 1.6 cm (3 3/4 x 4 1/2 x 5/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 50294 & 124010\St. Lawrence I.\Nelson
Provenance
Collector Edward William Nelson
Donor Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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