Snow knife
- Description
- Shaped for a hand grip as well as for attaching to a harpoon shaft. Collected 1826-7 by Peard on the voyage of HMS Blossom.
- Accession Loan No.
- 51/1916/90
- Collection Class
- Tools for farm and craft
- Common Name
- snow knife
- Simple Name
- knife
- Full Name
- snow knife
- Dimensions
- whole length 256 mm; whole W 8 mm; whole depth 25 mm
- Cultural Group
- Inupiat or Yup’ik Eskimo
- Production County
- Bering Strait / Northwest Alaska
- Production Area Region
- N
- Production Continent
- America
- Family Group
- Material
- walrus ivory
- Function Name
- tool
- Function Detail
- Used in areas where snow blocks were cut to build igloos for temporary shelter or to be melted into water.
- Collection Area Region
- N
- Collection Continent
- America
