Blubber Knife Steel
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Feb 1882
name: label: Collector
content: Edward W. Nelson
label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 4, FIG. 5B, P. 401. IDENTIFIED THERE AS KNIFE OF ATHABASKAN TYPE MADE FROM FILE. TWO-EDGED DAGGER.--MADE ENTIRELY OF STEEL, THE HANDLE BEING FORMED BY A WRAPPING OF LEATHER ABOVE THE BLADE. THERE IS A HOLE THROUGH THE END OF THE HANDLE. LENGTH, 12 1/2 INCHES; WIDTH, 1 1/4 INCHES. INDIANS OF ALASKA. COLLECTED BY E. W. NELSON."
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=113, retrieved 8-27-2012: Knife, Koyukon Athabascan.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Feb 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Tanana River, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Athabascan (Athabaskan)
label: Culture
content: Koyukon (Denaakk'e) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 82A00003
label: USNM Number
content: E49116-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 31.8 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 3.17 cm