Objects
Woman’s knife, prior to 1842
Woman’s knife, prior to 1842
Number
МАЭ № 2888-25
Title
Woman’s knife
Ethnicity
Kodiak Eskimos
Date
prior to 1842
Collectors-person
Material
wood, slate
Dimensions
length 28.5 cm, width 9.9 cm; handle: length 13 cm, width 3.3 cm, thickness 2.9 cm
Annotation
This knife was used for scraping fat off the inside of the hide of a dead animal. According to I. G. Voznesenskii this woman’s knife was an “older type” of article when it was collected in 1842.
Publications
Available in Russian St. Petersburg
Corpus
Ethnography of America
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