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Illustration of the snow knife
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Photograph of the snow knife    
Photograph of the snow knife    
The Iñupiat History of engraving Art of engraving
Snow knife
Place of origin: North Alaska (Kotzebue Sound?)
Date: c.1820s

Collected by Sir Edward Belcher, 1826-27; donated by the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1981

Registration number: AOA 1981, Am 12.33

More about this object type and the motifs shown:
Snow knives
Caribou
Walrus
Umiaqs
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