Object Record
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Metadata
Object ID |
54.226 |
Object Name |
Knife |
Other Name |
Ulu knife with bone handle |
Culture |
Inupiat |
Date |
1800-1950 |
Material |
Metal/Ivory/Sinew |
Description |
Quarter-circle, thin, steel knife blade set in a walrus ivory handle. Curved, ground steel blade with some rust and oxidation. Right-angled inner corner of blade is set into a slit cut into a rounded, trapezoidal handle carved from walrus ivory. Sinew used as caulking to secure blade into handle. |
Dimensions |
W-15.5 L-10.4 D-1.2 Dia-11 cm |
Found |
North America; United States; Alaska; Nome Census Area; Golovin |
Provenance |
Collected by Mrs George Bunker and donated by her daughter Mrs George Henry Boos in the early 1950s. |
Collector |
Bunker, Mrs. George |
Collection |
Anthropology; North America; Arctic/Subarctic |
Search Terms |
Inupiat Eskimo Alaska Inuit |