This slate knife (skifferkniv) was found in Storarmsjö by Johan Albert Häggström born 1889-10-22 in Ström, Bjurholm while digging a ditch. He is a distant relative to me and descendant of Erik Ersson in Knaften. He thinks he hurt the knife with his spade which might have taken the otherwise common elk head (American:moose) ending of from the knife. The culture that made knifes like this is the “slate culture” Skifferkulturen that had its prime 3300-2000 BC and was also present in Norway e.g. in Hedmark and Tröndelag. Another common slate object they made was T-formed things of unknown use.
They were hunters of e.g. elk and seal and used pits to catch elk and reindeer. The location of elk or reindeer pits in Sweden is shown below. (Only digitized pits from fornsök)
