Knife
date: label: Accession Date
content: 6 Apr 1898
label: Collection Date
content: 1895 ?
name: label: Collector
content: D W. Prentiss Jr.
label: Donor Name
content: D W. Prentiss Jr.
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "CURVED. USED IN HOLLOWING OUT BOATS. ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1897; FIG. 9; P. 737."
label: Notes
content: In American Anthropologist, Vol. 11, No. 6 (Jun., 1898), p. 190 (http://www.jstor.org/stable/658453?seq=4), D. W. Prentiss, Jr. appears to describe a knife like this in use to hollow boats and dishes during his visit to Yakutat Bay, Alaska in 1895. Prentiss had served as an assistant to Dr. Frederick William True, travelling to the Pribilof Islands for research on the summer 1895 voyage of the U.S.S. Albatross, whose return voyage stopped at Yakutat Bay.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Apr 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Yakutat Bay (not certain), Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tlingit, Yakutat
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 033385
label: USNM Number
content: E178196-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife