Woman's Knife
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1876
name: label: Collector
content: Lt. William A. Mintzer
label: Donor Name
content: Lt. William A. Mintzer
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1890; PL. 54-2, 3; P. 416." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 2OTH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "WOMAN'S KNIFE (ULU).---BLADE OF IRON, SLENDER, THE TWO ENDS RESEMBLING BOWIE-KNIFE POINTS. THIS IS RIVETED TO A PLATE OF IRON SERVING AS A STEM DRIVEN THROUGH A HANDLE OF OAK. RUDE SMITHING CHARACTERISTIC OF THIS AREA. LENGTH OF BLADE, 4 1/4 INCHES. ESKIMO OF CUMBERLAND GULF. 29,973 (A). COLLECTED BY LIEUT. W. T. MINTZER. " FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "WOMAN'S KNIFE (ULU).---BLADE SLIGHTLY CRESCENT-SHAPED, RIVETED TO THE IRON STEM ON ONE SIDE BY MEANS OF THREE IRON RIVETS. THE GRIP IS OF OAK, PROBABLY OF A WHALE SHIP. THE SMITHING IS VERY RUDE [SIC]. LENGTH OF BLADE 5 1/8 INCHES. ESKIMO OF CUMBERLAND GULF, 1876. 29,973 (2 SPECIMENS). COLLECTED BY LIEUT. W. T. MINTZER, U. S. N. ."
label: Notes
content: Listed on page 36 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Western Eskimo".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 5 Jun 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Baffin Island / Cumberland Gulf (Cumberland Sound), Nunavut, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inuit
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 005449
label: USNM Number
content: E29973-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife
physicalDescription: label: Length - Blade
content: 10.79 cm
label: Length - Blade
content: 13.018 cm