Knife
name: label: Donor Name
content: Accession Number Unknown
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "INDIAN KNIFE FOR CUTTING BIRCH BARK. ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1897; FIG. 4; PL.734. ILLUS. HNDBK. OF N. AMER. INDIANS, VOL. 15, NORTHEAST, FIG. 5, PG. 129. "...CROOKED KNIFE. THE BLADE IS IN THE FORM OF A FARRIER'S KNIFE, HELD IN PLACE ON THE HANDLE BY A SEIZING OF WOOD SPLINT." WOOD, REWORKED IRON FILE, WOODSPLINT. TYPICAL CROOKED KNIFE SHAPE. WOODEN HAFT, UPTURNED DRAW-KNIFE HANDLE. BLADE A REWORKED IRON FILE, SET INTO A CUT IN THE UPPER SIDE OF THE HANDLE; LASHED WITH WIDE WOODSPLINT LENGTH, ITS ENDS TUCKED THROUGH HOLE IN HANDLE NEAR UPPER END OF CUT. BLADE CURLED AT TIP." RUTH WHITEHEAD NOVA SCOTIA MUSEUM JULY/1985."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Eastport, Washington County, Maine, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Passamaquoddy (Peskotomuhkati)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 000000
label: USNM Number
content: E54338-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife