Crooked knife
Object Details
- Culture/People
- Algonquin [Golden Lake/Pikwàkanagàn First Nation]
- Collector
- Frederick Johnson (Fred Johnson/Frederick M. Johnson), Non-Indian, 1904-1994
- Collection History
- Collected in 1928 by anthropologist Frederick Johnson (1904-1994) during fieldwork sponsored by MAI.
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- Catalog Number
- 16/2628
- Barcode
- 162628.000
- Object Type
- Woodworking tools
- Indigenous Term
- mokðtágðn
- Object Name
- Crooked knife
- Media/Materials
- Iron blade, wood
- Techniques
- Carved
- Place
- Pikwàkanagàn Reserve (Golden Lake Reserve); Renfrew County; Ontario; Canada
- See related items
- Algonquin [Golden Lake/Pikwàkanagàn First Nation]
- Woodworking tools
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_174352
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws61e9bf519-8ccd-472c-a702-6c202d217e09
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