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Woman's knife
Object Number 88-51-10/50397
Display Title Woman's knife
Descriptions
Object Description Woman's knife
Inventory Description Knife, ulu, metal blade, semilunar, riveted to carved semilunar bone handle
Classification
  • Knife
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Eskimo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada / Newfoundland and Labrador / Labrador
Additional Geographic Terms Ungava; Arctic
Materials Metal, Bone
Dimensions Overall: 5.9 x 8.5 x 0.9 cm (2 5/16 x 3 3/8 x 3/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 50397 & [89962]\Labrador
Provenance
Collector Lucien M. Turner
Exchange participant Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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