Knife with Jade Blade and Bone handle

Iñupiaq or Yup'ik
Western Arctic
Arctic

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19th century

Bone and jade

Overall: 7 9/16 × 13/16 in. (19.2 × 2.1 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Glover Street Hastings III

181.2.26109

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Tools and Equipment: Food Processing

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Arctic-Western Arctic

Not on view

Inscriptions

Label: Alaska Knif [sic] / ESKIMO / Fossil bone hand / Jade Blade. / Standley Co. J-Day / [A E] 1933

Provenance

J. E. Standley (1854-1940), Ye Olde Curiosity Shop, Seattle, Washington; sold to Glover Street Hastings III, (1864-1948), West Newton, Massachusetts and Bridgeton, Maine, 1933; bequeathed to his daughter, Carlena Hastings Redfield (1888-1981), 1949; bequeathed to present collection [under the terms of her father's will], 1981.

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