Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected in 1877 or 1878 by Edward W. Nelson (1855-1934, a naturalist with the US Army Signal Corps on board the "Corwin") for the U.S. National Museum (precursor to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History); acquired by George Heye through an exchange with the US National Museum in 1908.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- probably Yup'ik (Yupik) (attributed)
- Collector
- Edward W. Nelson (Edward William Nelson/E.W. Nelson), Non-Indian, 1855-1934
- Previous owner
- U.S. National Museum (United States National Museum/National Museum of Natural History)
- Object Name
- Story knife
- Media/Materials
- Ivory
- Techniques
- Incised
- Object Type
- Games, Toys, Gambling
