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knife
Object Type
knife
Museum number
Am1949,22.56
Description
Register 1949: Iron knife with copper and thong handle pounded in the form of a human face.
Production ethnic group
Made by:
Tlingit
Made by:
Northwest Coast Peoples
Production date
1879
(before)
Excavator/field collector
Field Collection by:
William Ockelford Oldman
Field Collection by:
Crank
Field Collection by:
Harrow Museum
Findspot
Found/Acquired:
North America
Materials
iron
copper
Dimensions
Length:
46 centimetres
Width:
8 centimetres
Curator's comments
Register 1949: North West Coast. Oldman No. 994. From the Crank collection, circa 1879, Harrow Museum. See ETH DOC 1307.
Object was one of 12 Northwest Coast objects that featured in a 1976 episode of Pebble Mill on One.
Bibliographic references
Wayman 1992 / Aspects of Early North American Metallurgy
(pp. 31-35)
Dalton & Joyce 1910 / Handbook to the Ethnographical Collections
(Fig. 238)
Location
On display
(G26/dc7)
Exhibition history
Exhibited: 1999 25 Jun-Present, BM Room 26; Gallery of North America, Case: "The Northwest Coast of America"
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Dorothy Oldman
Funder name
With contribution from:
Art Fund
(as NACF)
Acquisition date
1949
Department
Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Registration number
Am1949,22.56
Conservation
Treatment
: 16 Jun 1989