A curator at the Alaska State Museum appears to have identified a mystery object found on a Lutak Inlet beach.

Ellen Carrlee, curator for Alaska State Museums, has located images of a the handle of a sharpening steel that appear to identically match a handle-like object found by resident Luke Marquardt about a year ago.

Carrlee’s photos suggest Marquardt was half right when he surmised it was a handle off a ship’s wheel: It was…