Woman's Knife
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1871
name: label: Collector
content: Capt. Charles F. Hall
label: Donor Name
content: Capt. Charles F. Hall
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR? 1890; P1. 55, FIG. 2; P. 416." FROM CARD: "WOMAN'S KNIFE (ULU).--BLADE OF IRON, FAN-SHAPED, RIVETED TO THE IRON STEM ON ONE SIDE WITH FOUR COPPER AND ONE IRON RIVETS. UPPER END OF STEM DRIVEN INTO A GRIP OF MUSK-OX HORN. THE SIDES OF THE BLADE WERE ROUGHLY CUT WITH A COLD CHISEL OR FILE, PERHAPS BY A WHALING SHIP'S CARPENTER. LENGTH, 4 INCHES. ESKIMO OF IGLOOLIK, 1871. 10,215. COLLECTED BY CAPT. C. F. HALL.
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: 16 Oct 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Igloolik Island, Melville Peninsula, Nunavut, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 002157
label: USNM Number
content: E10215-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 10 cm