Knife
Lashed onto the bone haft is animal jaw with a piece of bear skin wrapped around with hair attached. This is considered to be medicine. The blade is a European import stamped with ‘JOUKES COULE', which refers to Jacques Coulson, which was a blank blade originally made in Sheffield then exported abroad.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 1000/1904/11
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Arms and armour
- Collection Area Region
- N
- Material
- metal (Jukes Coulson stamp)bear jaw bone
- Common Name
- knife
- Simple Name
- knife
- Inscription Transcription
- Jukes Coul - refers to Jukes Coulson and Co. A Sheffield firm that specialised in exporting trade goods such as hunting knives. They were frequently imported by the Hudson Bay Company during the first half of the 19th century.
- Production County
- Northern Plains, Alberta
- Production Country
- Canada
- Production Year High
- 1878
