Slate and wood, 35.37 grams, 110 mm long. Post-Small Tool Tradition, Norton People; Circa 1st century AD. The ground slate blade of the knife inserted into a grooved wooden handle and used for cutting up seal or whale blubber. Reference: Emily Elizabeth Auger The Way of Inuit Art. Very fine and extremely rare; the wood only surviving at all as it became dessicated and preserved in frozen tundra. Provenance: from pre-1960 excavations at Cape Nome, Alaska, with the reference number G-257 on a white panel to both parts of the implement.