Slate Knife, Bone Handle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 23 Nov 1883
name: label: Collector
content: Lt P.H. Ray
label: Collector
content: John Murdoch
label: Collector
content: Middleton Smith
label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Signal Service
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CONDITION REPORT FOR HALL 9 TAKEDOWN (C. VALENTOUR 3/98): "SHAPED SLATE BLADE SECURED TO WOODEN HANDLE W/ RAWHIDE LASHINGS. HANDLE IS 2 PIECES OF WOOD W/ TANG OF BLADE INSERTED BETWEEN THEM. 89592 1002 OOGLAAMIE ALASKA JANUARY 21 1883 P H RAY USA WRITTEN ON BLADE."
label: Notes
content: Listed on page 34 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Western Eskimo".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Oct 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Point Barrow, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 013712
label: USNM Number
content: E89592-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 26 cm
label: Width - Blade
content: 7 cm