Short Curved Knife Item Number: E2278-0 from the National Museum of Natural History

Notes

FROM CARD: "ORIG. NO. 2878, ORIG. NO. 2263."Source of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/130 , retrieved 1-3-2020: Knife with an iron blade set into a handle made of antler. The blade has been sharpened by filing along both edges on one face of the blade only. The handle has three indentations cut into one edge to provide a grip. A shallow indentation that encircles the handle at the blade end likely once held a thong or sinew lashing to reinforce that end, which shows a small crack.