Hunting Knife - Copper
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Jun 1909
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Ferdinand Schmitter
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Ferdinand Schmitter
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Handle of 2 pieces of wood wrapped with rawhide. Copper hunting knife owned by Chief Isaac of Moosehide Indian village near Dawson, Yukon Territory. Isaac said that he procured it from a White River Indian. The old Upper Yukon natives say that long ago they used copper implements and that they secured them from the head of the White River where copper is abundant. - Ferdinand Schmitter, 1st Lt. Med. Corps U.S. Army."
label: Notes
content: Moosehide is generally Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in, i.e. Han Hwech'in. Per published sources, historically White River was Upper Tanana or Northern Tutchone.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Nov 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Moosehide / Dawson (near), Yukon, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Han (Han Hwech'in), Moosehide (?)
label: Culture
content: Tanana (?)
label: Culture
content: Tutchone, Northern (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 050235
label: USNM Number
content: E255343-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife