NW Coast Knife 26

Figure 13. Three Y-handled or athapaskan daggers. This image shows the contrast between an early wrought iron style from the Fraser River Basin (RBCM, ER-Y:1129) and two later ones ascribed as “subarctic” based on their style. (RBCM, Ethnology Collection 14982 and 14837). These later (1830s to early 1900s) varieties are narrower at the top of the blade and are less triangular in shape than earlier examples of this type.