Handle Of Paper Knife
date: label: Accession Date
content: 22 Jan 1957
name: label: Collector
content: Adm Edward D. Jones
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Edward D. Jones
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Carved from partly mineralized walrus ivory. An elongated section, mainly carved in the head portion with facial features indicated by lines. This face resembles the Billikens [a.k.a. billiken, a good luck piece] type figure which was patented Oct. 6, 1908 by Florence Pretz of Kansas City, Mo. and which was made in many popular forms for a few years in America and subsequently became a very popular Eskimo form, and still is today (1967). Mrs. Verne Ray [Dorothy Jean Ray], who has written several articles on the subject. Refer: Seattle (Wash.) Times, May 26, 1957. Alaska Sportsman, Sept. 1961."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yupik, St. Lawrence Island
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 213544
label: USNM Number
content: E394450-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Letter Opener