Stone Meat Knife, Bone Handle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 10 Sep 1876
name: label: Collector
content: Lucien M. Turner
label: Donor Name
content: Lucien M. Turner
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1890; P1. 64, FIG.4; P. 416." FROM CARD: "WOMAN'S KNIFE (ULU).---BLADE OF CLEAVER SHAPE, RIVETED INTO A VERY DEEP GROOVE IN A HANDLE OF ANTLER. THE LATTER PROJECTS FROM THE BLADE AND HAS ON ITS UNDER SIDE THREE DEEP FINGER GROOVES. PIERCED FOR SUSPENSION. THIS STYLE WAS USED FOR CARVING MEAT. LENGTH OF KNIFE, 8 INCHES. ESKIMO OF NORTON SOUND, ALASKA, 1876. 24,365. COLLECTED BY L. M. TURNER."
label: Notes
content: Listed on page 34 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: 16 Oct 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: St. Michael, Norton Sound, 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: 76A00100
label: USNM Number
content: E24365-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife
physicalDescription: label: Length - Knife
content: 20 cm