A steel-bladed knife with a bone handle. The blade has a small hole drilled at the cutting end. The blade and handle are attached using strips of hide bound around three times and fixed. The end of the handle is slightly flared out.

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.