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Culture/People:
Labrador Inuit  Search this
Collector:
Edmund B. Delabarre (Edmund Burke Delabarre/E. B. Delabarre), Non-Indian, 1863-1945  Search this
Previous owner:
Edmund B. Delabarre (Edmund Burke Delabarre/E. B. Delabarre), Non-Indian, 1863-1945  Search this
Dr. Frank G. Speck (Frank Gouldsmith Speck/F.G. Speck/FGS), Non-Indian, 1881-1950  Search this
Previous seller:
Edmund B. Delabarre (Edmund Burke Delabarre/E. B. Delabarre), Non-Indian, 1863-1945  Search this
Seller:
Dr. Frank G. Speck (Frank Gouldsmith Speck/F.G. Speck/FGS), Non-Indian, 1881-1950  Search this
Object Name:
Ulu knife blade (Image withheld)
Media/Materials:
Stone
Techniques:
Ground
Object Type:
Tools and Equipment (General)
Place:
Grave near Cape Chidley; Nachvak Bay, Cape Chidley; Labrador; Newfoundland and Labrador; Canada
Collection History:
Collected in 1900 by Edmund B. Delabarre (1863-1945, a Brown University psychology professor who led a scientific expedition to Labrador for Harvard University and Brown); purchased by anthropologist Frank G. Speck (1881-1950) from Edmund Delabarre, probably between 1920 and 1924; purchased by MAI from Frank Speck in 1924.
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Catalog Number:
12/7494
Barcode:
127494.000
See related items:
Labrador Inuit
Tools and Equipment (General)
Data Source:
National Museum of the American Indian
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws66cb88ab6-05c8-4e09-a91c-9954daafb8e7
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:NMAI_136717