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.
Corpus
Ethnography of America
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