Knife
Tlingit
Northwest Coast
Traditional
Wood, steel, and string
Overall: 10 7/16 × 13/16 × 1 1/8 in. (26.5 × 2 × 2.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Doris Meltzer
163.22.15108
Geography
Place Made: Wrangell, United States, North America
Object Name
Tools and Equipment: Knife
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Northwest Coast
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by Axel Rasmussen, in the 1920's and 1930's [until his death in 1945]; Earl Stendahl; to Doris Meltzer, Meltzer Gallery, New York; given to present collection, 1963.
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