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Date
1900 – 1935
Material
wood; metal; ivory
Catalogue Number
104.50.0005
Description
Knife with short stainless steel blade thick at back with sharp edge curving to point and deep groove along one side. Straight smoothly shaped wooden handle with two small wedge shaped pieces of ebony at end, round wooden dowel pin through at sides, and band of ivory at blade end abutted against a …
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Title
Utility Knife
Date
1900 – 1935
Material
wood; metal; ivory
Dimensions
1.6 x 2.5 x 20.5 cm
Description
Knife with short stainless steel blade thick at back with sharp edge curving to point and deep groove along one side. Straight smoothly shaped wooden handle with two small wedge shaped pieces of ebony at end, round wooden dowel pin through at sides, and band of ivory at blade end abutted against a narrower band of ebony. Cover for blade shaped and designed just like handle so that the two together look like one long smooth piece of wood with ivory band in middle.
Subject
households
hunting and fishing
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
104.50.0005
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Date
1965 – 1975
Material
metal; bone
Catalogue Number
104.50.0008
Description
Inuit woman's multi-purpose knife with triangular steel blade which has an curved edge. A steel shaft from blade to stubby, horizontal bone handle. "Canadian Eskimo Art" tag says "Community Baker Lake, Ulu, Eskimo woman's scraping tool".
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Title
Utility Knife
Date
1965 – 1975
Material
metal; bone
Dimensions
1.7 x 11.9 x 12.0 cm
Description
Inuit woman's multi-purpose knife with triangular steel blade which has an curved edge. A steel shaft from blade to stubby, horizontal bone handle. "Canadian Eskimo Art" tag says "Community Baker Lake, Ulu, Eskimo woman's scraping tool".
Subject
households
hunting and fishing
tanning
Inuit
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
104.50.0008
Images
Less detail
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.
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