Story knife with bird-shaped handle; used to draw lines in snow or mud to illustrate girls' stories
date: label: Date created
content: circa 1880
name: label: Culture/People
content: Yup'ik (Yupik)
label: Collector
content: Captain Samuel Applegate, Non-Indian, 1854-1926
label: Previous owner
content: U.S. National Museum (United States National Museum/National Museum of Natural History)
notes: label: Collection History
content: Collected between 1880 and 1886 by Captain Samuel Applegate (1854-1926, of the US Signal Corps schooner "Nellie Juan"); acquired by the US National Museum (later the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History) in 1886; acquired by George Heye through an exchange with the US National Museum in 1908.
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place: label: Place
content: Togiak River; Bristol Bay 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: 2/419
label: Barcode
content: 020419.000
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Games, Toys, Gambling
physicalDescription: label: Object Name
content: Story knife with bird-shaped handle; used to draw lines in snow or mud to illustrate girls' stories
label: Media/Materials
content: Ivory, pigment/pigments
label: Techniques
content: Carved, incised
label: Dimensions
content: 25.9 x 3.7 x 0.6 cm