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A curved steel-bladed knife with wooden handle
A slightly curved steel-bladed knife with an angled wooden handle. The blade is fixed in position by strips of skin[?] wound around the blade and the wooden handle. The end of the blade has been squared off. This may have been of indigneous manufacture in Canada.
This comes from a collection associated with Admiral Sir George Back (1796-1878) during one of the three Canadian overland expeditions that he participated in or, in the case of the 1833-1835 expedition, led. However, we do not know if it was used by him on any of them, or even on his last Arctic expedition in HMS Terror (1813) between 1836 and 1837.
This comes from a collection associated with Admiral Sir George Back (1796-1878) during one of the three Canadian overland expeditions that he participated in or, in the case of the 1833-1835 expedition, led. However, we do not know if it was used by him on any of them, or even on his last Arctic expedition in HMS Terror (1813) between 1836 and 1837.
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Object Details
| ID: | ZBA9296 |
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| Type: | Knife |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Date made: | Circa 1819-1837 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |