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Description: | SuluNG' in bone, blade spliced and riveted with iron rivets to hook-shaped handle, 3 finger-holds carved in blade/handle rivetted area
"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 'sulung' or snow-knife with a flat, curved, bone blade rivetted with iron to a bone handle. The bone of the handle is possibly from a different animal. The two pieces are tapered at the joint, making it stronger and keeping it slim. Three finger holds have been carved into the join and the end of the handle has a typical hook, to give a better grip. The snow-knife comes from Cape Dorset, Baffin Island, Canada and dates from the end of the 19th or beginning of the 20th century."
Author: Feilden,Rosemary Date: 2000 Purpose: SCRAN
Field collector: Livingstone, J | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDUA University of Aberdeen, Marischal Museum | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1850-1924 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Creator: | Inuit | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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