Knife With Scabbard
date: label: Accession Date
content: 12 Jun 1922
name: label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Henry Stockbridge Jr.
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Carved wooden scabbard, set with ivory."
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 31.8 p. 231 of Fitzhugh, William W., and Chisato O. Dubreuil. 1999. Ainu: spirit of a northern people. [Washington, D.C.]: Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in association with University of Washington Press. Identified there: Makiri (knife) for carving inaw (sacred sticks). "Men used special types of knives to carve inaw: one was similar to a regular man's knife but had a wide hooked tip; another (fig. 26.2) was a thin iron blade with a wooden block fitted to the end. The block served to guide the blade when shaving long, thin curls."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Aug 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Japan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ainu
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 068419
label: USNM Number
content: E324511-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife/Knife Sheath
physicalDescription: label: Length - Sheath
content: 20.3 cm
label: Width - Sheath
content: 5 cm
label: Height - Sheath
content: 1.9 cm
label: Length - Knife
content: 21.6 cm
label: Width - Knife
content: 3.2 cm
label: Height - Knife
content: 1.3 cm