Catalog Number
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Catalog Number |
CAS 0036-0054 | |
| Category | Tools & Implements | |
| Object Name | Ulu knife | |
| Culture | Inupiat or Yup'ik (Yupik) Eskimo | |
| Global Region | North America | |
| Country | USA | |
| State/Prov./Dist. | Alaska | |
| County | unknown | |
| Other Geographic Data | unknown | |
| Maker's Name | Unknown | |
| Date of Manufacture | late 1800s | |
| Collection Name | N/A | |
| Materials | Metal: steel, copper; Ivory | |
| Description | Crescent-shaped steel knife with a bifacially thinned (mostly on one face), convex cutting edge; Back edge of blade is also somewhat crescent shaped, with two hammered copper bars riveted to blade at widest point and rising up before joining and being inserted into a cut out section of a rounded rectangular ivory handle. | |
| Dimensions (cm) | Width = 11.9, Thickness = 1.7, Length = 10.1 | |