Knife
- Description
- Despite its crude appearance, this tool would have been used for cutting and cleaning seal and whale meat. This has an iron cutting blade set into a wooden handle bound in animal sinew. Iron wasn’t known until the arrival of Europeans who traded it.
- Accession Loan No.
- E1234
- Collection Class
- Tools for farm and craft
- Common Name
- knife
- Simple Name
- knife
- Full Name
- knife
- Dimensions
- whole length 145 mm; whole diameter 47 mm
- Cultural Group
- possibly Inuit
- Production Year High
- 1778
- Production County
- Western Arctic
- Production Country
- Canada
- Production Area Region
- North America
- Production Continent
- North America
- Family Group
- Material
- wood; iron; sinew
- Function Name
- tool
- Function Detail
- Captain Cook headed north in 1778 after leaving Hawaii and came to the American Northwest and the Arctic. Iron wasn’t known until the arrival of Europeans who traded it. It is difficult to know the exact origin or function of this tool.
- Collection Area Region
- N
- Collection Continent
- America
