Ivory Snow Knife
date: label: Accession Date
content: 23 Nov 1883
name: label: Collector
content: Lt P.H. Ray
label: Collector
content: John Murdoch
label: Collector
content: Middleton Smith
label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Signal Service
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "SNOW KNIFE.---MADE OF WALRUS IVORY. FOUR PARALLEL LINES CARVED LENGTHWISE ON THE BLADE. ON EACH SIDE OF THE HANDLE ARE SMALL HOLES, THROUGH WHICH RUN RAWHIDE THONGS. LENGTH, 19 INCHES; WIDTH, 1 5/8 INCHES. ESKIMO OF POINT BARROW, ALASKA, 1881. 56,508. COLLECTED BY LIEUT. P. H. RAY, U.S.A. ."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Apr 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Point Barrow, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 013712
label: USNM Number
content: E56508-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Snow Knife
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 48 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 4.127 cm