Toorki Knife "Bichak"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 May 1895
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. William L. Abbott
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "LEATHER SCABBARD." FROM CARD: "175,134A. KNIFE (BICHAK).-HANDLE PLATES OF HORN; BLADE, OF FINELY GROUND STEEL, CURVING AT THE POINT; SHEATH OF BLACK LEATHER. LENGTH, 10 1/2 INCHES. TURKI TRIBE, KASHGAR, EASTERN TURKESTAN. 175,134. GIFT OF DR. W. L. ABBOTT." Note: both ledger book and old exhibit label identify as from Kashgar. The Yarkand locality on the card is perhaps a duplicating error picked up from 175133? - F. Pickering 7-30-2008
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Kashgar, East Turkestan (Xinjiang), China, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Turki
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 029359
label: USNM Number
content: E175134-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 26.7 cm