Pocket Knife Item Number: 3584/18 a-b from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Pocket knife with detachable blade (part b). Handle (part a) has a wide channel along its bottom edge, where blade fits in. Handle is carved in the shape of a fish with a flaring tail and rectangular body; fish has a triangular head at front, where blade extends. Additional details done across tail; all designs are on both top and bottom sides of handle, and are done in black pigment(?). Fish's eyes made up of a circular indent; hole drilled underneath eye. Short blade has a matching hole drilled through its circular end; blade curves along top edge before tapering to a flat point, bottom edge of blade is straight. (Pin to attach blade to handle is missing).
Acquired by the donor's father when he lived in Nyac, Alaska, on the Kuskokwim River, from the 1920s to 1960s.