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Description: | A knife with a leaf-shaped, two-edged steel blade with a bone handle secured by rivets. The tang goes right through to the end of the handle. The blade of the knife is an English-made trade item, hafted locally - it fits the knife sheath.
European knives and metal blades were valuable trade goods, exchanged with Native Americans engaged in the fur-trade for beaver pelts.
The knife forms part of a collection of ethnographic material made by Admiral Sir George Back (1796-1878).
Bequeathed to Greenwich Hospital in 1900 by Mrs Eliza Back, widow of Sir George Back's nephew, the Rev Henry Back. See PRO ADM169-267.
caption: Knife | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | knives George Back | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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