Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name)
5. equipment
6. [equipment by process]
7. cutting equipment
8. cutting tools
9. knives

Anotations

Scope 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.