Knife Item Number: E178196-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
FROM CARD: "CURVED. USED IN HOLLOWING OUT BOATS. ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1897; FIG. 9; P. 737."In American Anthropologist, Vol. 11, No. 6 (Jun., 1898), p. 190 (http://www.jstor.org/stable/658453?seq=4), D. W. Prentiss, Jr. appears to describe a knife like this in use to hollow boats and dishes during his visit to Yakutat Bay, Alaska in 1895. Prentiss had served as an assistant to Dr. Frederick William True, travelling to the Pribilof Islands for research on the summer 1895 voyage of the U.S.S. Albatross, whose return voyage stopped at Yakutat Bay.
Item History
- Made in Alaska, USA
- Collected by D W. Prentiss Jr. in Alaska, USA during 1895
- Received on April 6, 1898
What
- Name
- Knife
- Identification Number
- E178196-0
- Type of Item
- knife
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit and Yakutat
- Field Collector
- D W. Prentiss Jr.
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Alaska, USA
- Collected in
- Alaska, USA
When
- Collection Date
- during 1895 ?
- Acquisition Date
- on April 6, 1898
Other
- Accession Number
- 033385