- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Iron blade with bone handle; from a grave
- Long description
- Bone knife-handle, with iron blade.
- Geographical reference
- Nunavut Qikiqtaaluk Region [Baffin Island] Pond Inlet unnamed grave
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Thule Culture
- Date collected
- By 1920
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1925
- Materials and processes
- Material Bone, Material Iron Metal, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Length: max 185 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1925.11.13 Other numbers: 1925.141
Search terms: Death, Religion, Tool, Weapon, Knife, Grave Good
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