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A knife sheath made of smoked moose skin sewn with bird quill with a metal chape
The sheath would have been used by trappers and indigenous people in sub-Arctic North America.
The knife forms part of a collection of ethnographic material made by Admiral Sir George Back (1796-1878). Back took part in three overland journeys to explore the north coast of America in 1819-22, 1825-27 and 1833-35. He travelled north via the network of rivers and lakes on the Canadian Shield stopping at Hudson Bay Company trading posts where he had the opportunity to acquire this type of material.
The knife forms part of a collection of ethnographic material made by Admiral Sir George Back (1796-1878). Back took part in three overland journeys to explore the north coast of America in 1819-22, 1825-27 and 1833-35. He travelled north via the network of rivers and lakes on the Canadian Shield stopping at Hudson Bay Company trading posts where he had the opportunity to acquire this type of material.
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Object Details
| ID: | AAA2641 |
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| Collection: | World Cultures |
| Type: | Knife sheath |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Date made: | 1819-1834; 1819-34 |
| Exhibition: | The Atlantic: Slavery, Trade, Empire; Trade and Commerce |
| People: | Back, George |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Greenwich Hospital Collection |
| Measurements: | Overall: 610 mm x 80 mm x 20 mm |