NW Coast knife 1

Fighting knife from the North West Pacific Coast in the Americas. Owned by Louis Colville Gray Clarke. Given to the Museum in 1921.

This unusual double-ended steel fighting knife was probably made by the Tlingit, an indigenous people of the costal regions of Alaska and Canada in north-western North America. It dates to around 1800. The mounts are copper, the grip is bound in hair and the attached sheath is made of pieces of animal skin.