Woman's Knife
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Dec 1929
name: label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Pollister
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Slate blade, handle of old black ivory gracefully carved in form of polar bear."
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact https://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=695 , retrieved 7-17-2018: Woman's knife. St. Lawrence Island Yupik. A woman's knife, ulaaq, has a thousand everyday uses for sewing, cutting meat, and preparing food. As Estelle Oozevaseuk described, a small ulaaq can be used to skin a whole seal from the inside to make an inflatable hunting float. This ancient woman's knife from the Old Bering Sea period has a stone blade and a walrus ivory handle carved in the shape of a polar bear.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Apr 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Little Diomede Island, Diomede Islands, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yupik, St. Lawrence Island
label: Culture
content: Old Bering Sea
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 108272
label: USNM Number
content: E345466-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 14.1 cm