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Description: | A relic of Sir John Franklin's last expedition 1845-8. Knife (killuutuniq) bought from the Inuit by the McClintock Search Expedition on 3 March 1859, near Cape Victoria, on the Boothia Peninsula. The item is made from materials salvaged from discarded equipment belonging to the Franklin expedition. A small knife with a European blade attached with copper rivets and steel rivets to a horn handle with a suspension hole. The blade is marked 'MILLIKIN 301 STRAND LONDON'. The knife would have been used for skinning game. Refered to in F.L. McClintock's 'The Voyage of the Fox in Arctic Seas' p. 369 'Seven knives made by the natives out of materials obtained from the last expedition'. A Royal Naval Museum number has been painted in white on the handle '(6)'. The item was displayed in the Franklin Room, case 5, number 6. | Publisher: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/page/7d7ded6fb50d6031e2884961a200be58.html | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Creator: | Millikin | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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