Knife
Unidentified Sámi maker
collected 1949
Bone, leather, steel
Overall: 6 11/16 × 1 × 5/8 in. (17 × 2.5 × 1.6 cm)
Overall: 9 5/16 × 2 13/16 × 15/16 in. (23.7 × 7.2 × 2.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Joel M. Halpern
2002.40.35007
Geography
Place Made: Lake Torneträsk, Sweden, Europe
Period
20th century
Object Name
Decorative Object
Research Area
European History
Not on view
Inscriptions
Stamped, in steel blade: ERIK FROST / MORA / SWEDEN
Course History
ANTH 12.11, NAS 30, Arctic Crossroads: Its Peoples, Cultures, and History, William Fitzhugh, Winter 2015
Provenance
Collected in Sweden by Joel M. Halpern, 1949; given to present collection, 2002.
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