Steel Used By South Indian Tribe
date: label: Accession Date
content: 23 Oct 1935
name: label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Virginia W. Hillyer
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Shape of Ghonkah knife with handle of wood."
label: Notes
content: This resembles a Gurkha chakmak, which is shaped like a kukri knife, but is actually a blunt edged tool, used either as a sharpening steel for the kukri blade, or as a striker (in combination with native flint) to start fires.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 5 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: South, India, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ghonkah
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 136485
label: USNM Number
content: E376226-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sharpening Steel