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Object #     966
Object name     Dagger
Culture of Origin     Northern Athabascan
Materials     Iron
Dimensions     L: 16.5 in, W: 2.3 in
Exhibit Label    

Scroll handled daggers, used as weapons, were traded from the Athabascan people who lived in the Alaskan interior. This knife was collected at Fort Wrangell from an elderly Tlingit woman.

Source     Mr. George T. Emmons
Location     Fort Wrangell, Alaska
Credit     Purchased with funds donated by Thomas Burke


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