Dakota pipestone paper knife

Titles: Dakota pipestone paper knife (Supplied title)

Description: A Dakota carved pipestone/catlinite paper knife with incised designs, circa 1910. The handle is in the form of a fish (probably from the pike family) with incised lines on each side indicating the mouth, eyes, gills, and fins. The blade has a sharply beveled blade edge with a clipped point. Each side of the blade has a highly stylized foliate design. The speckled pipestone has a natural color variation and represents hues from orange to red to brown. There is a cylindrical hole in one end of each piece that was originally used to connect the two.

Dates

• Exactly 1910 (Creation)

Creation

• owned by: Dailey, William Markham
• owned by: Johnston, Eliza Belle

Identifiers

• Accession Number: 1987.238.6.A,B

Holding Type: 3D Objects

Quantity: 1 item

Format

• Content Category: artifacts

Measurements

• 5 5/8 inches length (1987.238.6.A, blade)
• 2 inches width (1987.238.6.A, blade)
• 3/8 inches depth (1987.238.6.A, blade)
• 5 1/4 inches length (1987.238.6.B, handle)
• 1 1/4 inches width (1987.238.6.B, handle)
• 1/2 inches depth (1987.238.6.B, handle)

Subjects

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