Mokotakin

Title: Mokotakin
Creator: Thomas Damase
Subject: Anicinabe ocitowin (Arts and crafts); Tool
Description: A piece of metal bent at one end, the other end fitting into a bone handle. The blade is held in the handle by three nails. The blade resembles a knife used to clean and trim horses' hooves (pepecigogackwe) rather than a crooked knife blade.

Also used to smoothen and carve wood, for example for canoe making.
Format: Object
Étendue: Length: 21.6 cm
Matériaux: Bone (Okan); Deer (Wawackeci); Metal (Piobik)
Technique de fabrication: Forged; Carved; Assembled
Date Created: 1965
Titre antérieur: Crooked knife [Musée de la Civilisation]
Title replaced by the Anicinabemowin term.
Source: https://collections.mcq.org/objets/10500
Contributor: Musée de la Civilisation (sharing); Richard Ejinagosi Kistabich (description)
Date Modified: 2025-03-27
Access Rights: Open access
License: Protected by copyrights
Identifier: MdlC75-1091

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