Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected by Augusta B. Mueller (1899-1968) between 1922 and 1926 when she worked as a nurse in Point Barrow, Alaska; donated to MAI by Augusta Mueller in 1928.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Iñupiaq [Nuwukmiut/Point Barrow]
- Collector
- Augusta B. Mueller, Non-Indian, 1899-1968
- Previous owner
- Augusta B. Mueller, Non-Indian, 1899-1968
- Donor
- Augusta B. Mueller, Non-Indian, 1899-1968
- Object Name
- Knife handle
- Media/Materials
- Animal Bone
- Techniques
- Perforated
- Object Type
- Tools and Equipment (General)
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