Woman's Knife Ulu
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Feb 1882
name: label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "BLADE OF HORN-STONE, LEAF-SHAPED, WITH A PROJECTION FROM ONE MARGIN. THE HANDLE IS OF MOST PRIMITIVE [SIC] CHARACTER, BEING FORMED OF OSIER, WRAPPED BACKWARD AND FORWARD LONGITUDINALLY, AND HELD FIRMLY IN PLACE BY CROSS TWINING AND WEAVING OF THE SAME MATERIAL. THE INTERSTICES ARE FILLED WITH FISH SCALES. ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1890; PL. 61, FIG. 1; P. 416. ALSO IN REPT, 1897; PL. 44, FIG. 1; P. 950."
label: Notes
content: Listed on page 36 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: 12 Apr 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Hotham Inlet, Kotzbue Sound, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 82A00003
label: USNM Number
content: E63765-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 9.53 cm