Knife with black obsidian blade and decorated clay handle

Made:: 1801-1930

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

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A610520

Materials:: obsidian and clay

Measurements:: length 251 mm
width 38 mm
thickness 23 mm

type:: knives

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Knife with black obsidian blade and decorated clay handle

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