Story knife
name: label: Culture/People
content: Yup'ik (Yupik)
label: Collector
content: Edward W. Nelson (Edward William Nelson/E.W. Nelson), Non-Indian, 1855-1934
label: Previous owner
content: U.S. National Museum (United States National Museum/National Museum of Natural History)
notes: label: Collection History
content: Collected in 1880 by Edward W. Nelson (1855-1934, a naturalist with the US Army Signal Corps on board the "Corwin") for the U.S. National Museum (precursor to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History); acquired by George Heye through an exchange with the US National Museum in 1908.
label: Contact Us
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place: label: Place
content: Pastolik; Calista Native Corporation; Alaska; USA
setName: label: See related items
content: Yup'ik (Yupik)
label: See related items
content: Games, Toys, Gambling
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of the American Indian
identifier: label: Catalog Number
content: 2/412
label: Barcode
content: 020412.000
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Games, Toys, Gambling
physicalDescription: label: Object Name
content: Story knife
label: Media/Materials
content: Ivory
label: Techniques
content: Carved, incised