Dagger
NA8488A
Location: On Display in the Native North America Gallery
From: United States of America | Alaska | Sitka (uncertain) | Klukwan (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | NA8488A |
| Current Location | Native North America Gallery - On Display |
| Culture | Chilkat | Tlingit |
| Provenience | United States of America | Alaska | Sitka (uncertain) | Klukwan (uncertain) |
| Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
| Locus | Klukwan Dagisdinaa Clan | Thunder House |
| Date Made | ca. 1850 CE |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Iron | Ivory | Abalone Shell | Hide |
| Description | Dagger called the "Ghost of the Courageous Adventurer" made by Kaa.ushti, one of Louis Shotridge's ancestors. The blade is made from iron with a medial ridge on one side. The hilt is an extension of the blade and wrapped with a mesh of mountain goat hair dyed red and green. The pommel is made of walrus ivory shaped as a human skull to represent the ancestors who made the journey from Klukwan to the Copper River and back again. The teeth, nose, and sides of the skull are inlaid with blue abalone shell. (Lucy Fowler Williams, Expedition Magazine, 2012, v. 54, no. 2, p. 15) |
| Length | 39.05 cm |
| Width | 5.56 cm |
| Depth | 3.81 cm |
| Credit Line | Wanamaker Expedition to the Northwest Coast; Louis Shotridge, 1918 |
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