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Iron knife or cleaver
Iron knife or cleaver
Object Number 983-31-10/58680
Display Title Iron knife or cleaver
Descriptions
Object Description 1 knife. Wooden hilt, metal blade. Hilt covered with brass plaques with rampant quadrupeds. Thick blade with floral medallions; heavily worn and abused through use as tool for splitting wood. Iron knife or cleaver
Inventory Description Metal, iron knife, with decorative blade and wood and brass handle, tip broken
Classification
  • Knife
Department Archaeological
Date 16th Century -17th Century
Culture
  • Spanish
  • Colonial Period
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Arizona / Navajo County / <City> / Old Oraibi?; Keam's Canyon?
Materials Iron, Brass, Wood
Dimensions Overall: 21.6 x 3.9 x 2.3 cm (8 1/2 x 1 9/16 x 7/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 983-31-10/58680
Provenance
Provenance Peter Stauffer (1909 post)

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