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A) Hunting knife w/ flattened cylindrical burled softwood handle w/ slightly swelled butt end. Shaped steel blade. B) Sheath w/ a cylindrical hand-stitched leather handle w/ rawhide tie. Ivory or bone body w/ sharply curved end. Features scrimshaw type decoration of reindeer/caribou and diamond border bands.
knives
bone (material)
leather
steel (alloy)
Bone
Steel
Leather
KNIFE
Coffin House (Newbury, Mass.),
Unknown
1.625 (W) (inches)
Gift of Margaret E.C. Merriam in memory of her mother Elizabeth Low Coffin Colman
1985.202AB
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