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ID: 300438463
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300438463

 

Record Type: concept
crooked knives (knives, cutting tools, ... Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name))

 

Note: Carving knives manufactured by Northeast Native Americans; has origins in pre-contact knives fashioned from beaver or porcupine teeth. After European contact, Native carvers used metal blades. Distinctive by their elaborately carved, curving handles, often terminating in a figurative form such as ferns or hands.
 
Terms:
crooked knives (preferred,C,U,English-P,D,U,PN)
crooked knife (C,U,English,AD,U,SN)
môhkotâkan (C,U,English,UF,L,SN)
môhkotâkan (Cree,UF,U,SN)
bikahtagenigan (C,U,English,UF,L,SN)
knives, crooked (C,U,English,UF,U,U)

Facet/Hierarchy Code:  V.TH

Hierarchical Position:

Hierarchy of Objects Facet
Objects Facet
Hierarchy of Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
.... Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name) (G)
Hierarchy of Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name)
........ Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name) (G)
Hierarchy of equipment
............ equipment (G)
Hierarchy of <equipment by process>
................ <equipment by process> (G)
Hierarchy of cutting equipment
.................... cutting equipment (G)
Hierarchy of cutting tools
........................ cutting tools (G)
Hierarchy of knives
............................ knives (G)
Hierarchy of crooked knives
................................ crooked knives (G)

Related concepts:
reflect/produced by ....  <Eastern Woodland and Eastern Great Lake Native American>
....................................  (Native North American, Native American, ... Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)) [300017542]
reflect/produced by ....  Penobscot
....................................  (<Eastern Woodland and Eastern Great Lake Native American>, Native North American, ... Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)) [300017561]

Sources and Contributors:
bikahtagenigan............  [VP]
.............................  Hudson Museum, University of Maine [online] (2020-) "bikahtagenigan," accessed 14 January 2020, "bikahtagenigan"
crooked knife............  [VP]
..........................  Coe et al, Responsive Eye: Collecting of American Indian Art (2003) 117-119; accessed 14 January 2020
crooked knives............  [VP Preferred]
.............................  Coe et al, Responsive Eye: Collecting of American Indian Art (2003) 117-119; accessed 14 January 2020
.............................  Hudson Museum, University of Maine [online] (2020-) "crooked knife," accessed 14 January 2020, "bikahtagenigan,"
.............................  Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) "crooked knife," accessed 14 January 2020, "Crooked Knife,"
knives, crooked............  [VP]
.............................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
môhkotâkan............  [VP]
.......................  Nehiyaw Masinahikan [online] (2020-) "môhkotâkan," accessed 14 January 2020
 
Subject: .....  [VP]
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... Coe et al, Responsive Eye: Collecting of American Indian Art (2003) 117-119; accessed 14 January 2020
.......... Hudson Museum, University of Maine [online] (2020-) accessed 14 January 2020, "bikahtagenigan,"
.......... Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) accessed 14 January 2020, "Crooked Knife,"

 

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