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Description: | trapezoidal blade in polished fine-grained red stone ('lateritised lava'), two perforations used to tie to ivory handle with hide strips, handle with three perforations and thicker back
"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 an 'ulu' or women's knife. It has the typical crescent-shaped blade, of a fine-grained red stone, probably a lava, which is perforated to allow it to be fixed to the carved bone handle by hide thongs. The handle is attached across the back of the blade. This style of knife is found throughout the Inuit communities of Arctic America. The ulu was particularly used for hide preparation, but also for cutting thread or, sometimes, food. It was used with a rocking motion. This is the type of knife in use before metal was generally available for blades. It comes from Cape Dorset, Baffin Island, Canada, and was probably in use in the late 19th 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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