Knife
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Dec 1866
name: label: Donor Name
content: Roderick R. MacFarlane
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ESKIMO KNIFE. ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 4, FIG. 5C, P. 401. IDENTIFIED THERE AS KNIFE OF ATHABASKAN TYPE MADE FROM FILE."
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/37 , retrieved 12-17-2019: Knife made from a single piece of iron that serves as the blade, handle and pommel. Remnants of cross-hatched lines on the surface of the blade show that this knife was made from a file. The blade has been sharpened along one edge. It is narrower at the handle, which has been wrapped with light and dark pieces of hide thong. The pommel was made by splitting and bending the piece of iron below the handle. This style of knife, and in particular the shape of the pommel, is characteristic of iron knives made in Siberia and traded throughout the western Arctic and Subarctic, although it may have been made locally, copying that design.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Apr 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Northwest Territories, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inuit, Inuvialuk (Inuvialuit) (?)
label: Culture
content: Athabascan (Athabaskan) (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00090
label: USNM Number
content: E1635-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife