Knife, Ivory Handle, Iron Blade
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1879
name: label: Collector
content: Edward W. Nelson
label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1890; PL. 67, FIG. 2; P. 316. 1/83 SITES INUA LOAN." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "WOMAN'S KNIFE (ULU).--BLADE OF IRON, SET IN A GROOVE OF THE WALRUS IVORY HANDLE. WITH ENDLESS VARIETY OF DETAIL THIS FORM OF HANDLE, WITH CRESCENT-SHAPED OPENING, IS TYPICAL. ORNAMENTATION, A GROOVE ABOVE WITH CROSS-LINES IN PAIRS AND FOURS AND CROSS-HATCHING IN THE LOWER PART. WIDTH OF BLADE, 3 INCHES. ESKIMO OF KUSKOKVIM BAY, ALASKA, 1879. 36,316. COLLECTED BY E. W. NELSON."
label: Notes
content: From transcript of consultations held in conjunction with "Yuungnaqpiallerput (The Way We Genuinely Live)" exhibit, April 17-18, 2010: "a very typical woman's knife"
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Jan 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Konigunuaumut, Kuskokwim Bay, 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: 008133
label: USNM Number
content: E36316-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife
physicalDescription: label: Width - Blade
content: 8 cm