Dagger
NA1286A
From: Alaska | Klukwan (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | NA1286A |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Tlingit |
| Provenience | Alaska | Klukwan (uncertain) |
| Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
| Locus | Klukwan Dagisdinaa Clan? |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Copper | Caribou Hide | Musk Ox Horn | Abalone Shell | Wood |
| Description | Dagger made from copper. The blade has two longitudinal grooves on either side of a center line- a result of a reinforcing rib of copper added to strengthen the blade. The hilt is an extension of the blade covered by two pieces of wood wrapped with a caribou hide strip. The pommel is made from copper and represents a sun. The sun has facial features with eyes and teeth inlaid with abalone shell. The sun pommel is also a rattle. A plate at the base of the blade is made from musk-ox horn and is held in place with copper rivets. |
| Length | 56 cm |
| Width | 11.3 cm |
| Credit Line | Alaska Ethnological Expedition, George Byron Gordon, 1905 |
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