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Snow knives made from walrus ivory
Snow knives made from walrus ivory
Object Number 93-14-10/49697.1
Display Title Snow knives made from walrus ivory
Descriptions
Indigenous Term Apummik aggut, aaqqip tuugaanik sanaaq
Inventory Description Ivory snow knife, curved blade, plain handle
Classification
  • Tools
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1893
Culture
  • Greenland Eskimo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Greenland
Additional Geographic Terms Arctic highlands
Materials Walrus ivory
Dimensions Overall: 43 × 6 × 1.6 cm (16 15/16 × 2 3/8 × 5/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 49697 & A-8224
Provenance
Collector Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary (1892)
Donor Donated by Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary

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