Knife, blade black obsidian, handle decorated clay

Made:
1801-1930

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Knife, blade black obsidian, handle decorated clay, from Admiralty Island, 1801-1930

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Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Object Number:
A114455
Materials:
clay, obsidian
type:
knives, ethnography (micronesian), surgery (general) ethnography (micronesian), knives, surgery (general)
credit:
Sotheby's

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