Snow Knife
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Oct 1886
name: label: Collector
content: Sgt. Samuel Applegate
label: Collector
content: John W. Clark
label: Donor Name
content: Sgt. Samuel Applegate
notes: label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE NOTE: NO LOCALITY FOR FIELD NUMBER 207 IS LISTED IN THE ACCESSION RECORD BUT IT WOULD FALL IN THE IKALIUK NUMBER SEQUENCE - F. PICKERING 4/16/1997
label: Notes
content: From card: "Illus.: Hndbk. N. Amer. Ind., Vol. 5 Arctic, fig. 19, pg. 239. "... handle end probably representing a bird's head." Loan: Crossroads Sep 22 1988. Loan returned: Jan 21 1993. Illus.: Crossroads of Continents catalogue; Fig. 357, p. 262." Crossroads catalogue caption identifies: "Storyknife, Bering Sea Eskimo. For a Yupik Eskimo girl, an ivory storyknife was her most treasured plaything besides her dolls. Made by her uncle, the storyknife was used to draw pictures and shorthand symbols in the sand, illustrating stories she made up or heard. This storyknife, like most, has an image of a bird - probably a puffin - on the hilt, in addition to a collar motif, three nucleated circles, and a skeletized spine. No certain information of storyknife decoration, but it appears to represent stylized birds.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Togiak River, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 018036
label: USNM Number
content: E127403-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Story Knife