Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown, but said to have been obtained from a Doyon chief; formerly in the collection of Major Charles H. Bonesteel (1851-1902, US Army, 21st Infantry); presented by him to the Long Island Historical Society in 1886; lent by the Long Island Historical Society to MAI in 1920; donated to NMAI by the Brooklyn Historical Society in 2020.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Hän (Han Hwëchʼin)
- Previous owner
- Major Charles H. Bonesteel, Sr. (Charles Hartwell Bonesteel), Non-Indian, 1851-1902
- Long Island Historical Society (Brooklyn Historical Society [after 1985])
- Donor
- Long Island Historical Society (Brooklyn Historical Society [after 1985])
- Date created
- 1850-1900
- Object Name
- Knife
- Media/Materials
- Slate, wood, hide thong/babiche
- Techniques
- Ground, carved, wrapped
- Object Type
- Tools and Equipment (General)
