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Description: | scraper knife or ulu in bone (handle) and flint (blade), handle with central hole, blade rectangular and pressure flaked
"The Inuit of Arctic America used all the natural resources that were available to them, particularly animals, such as seal, caribou, walrus and whales, and they processed their skins, bones, tendons and even intestines into food, clothing, and equipment. They had a number of knives developed to help in this work, for scraping and cutting skins, processing tendons, cutting snow, and in preparing food. This is a 'ulu' or women's knife. It has the typical ulu form with long blade set edgeways into a rectangular handle. The blade is grey flint and has been pressure flaked, into a sub-rectangular form and then set into a a slot in the bone handle, with a large hole carved into the centre. The ulu was used for scraping and preparing skins for making into clothes and equipment and also for cutting thread or food. The blade wasoften used with a rocking motion. This is the form that would have been used before the introduction of iron by Europeans in the Contact period. Either part of the tool could be replaced if it broke. It came from Southampton Island, Hudson Bay, Canada."
Author: Feilden,Rosemary Date: 2000 Purpose: SCRAN
Acquisition source: Mitchell, W R | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDUA University of Aberdeen, Marischal Museum | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1850-1920 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Creator: | Inuit | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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