Small Knife
date: label: Accession Date
content: 30 Jan 1868
name: label: Donor Name
content: Roderick R. MacFarlane
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "5813-5. 5814 - LENT TO PRINCE OF WALES NORTHERN HERITAGE CENTER 6-3-92. LOAN RETURNED: DEC 21 1992."
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/161 , retrieved 1-24-2020: A small ulu with an iron blade and a handle made from antler or bone. The uppermost part of the blade is set into the handle and is further secured with two tangs, each of which had been made from two pieces of antler or bone (one piece is missing from one of the tangs) set into a slot in the handle and attached there and to the blade by copper rivets. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/58: An ulu is a knife with a crescent-shaped blade attached to a handle made of wood, bone or antler. The design of an ulu ensures that the cutting force is centred more over the middle of the blade than with an ordinary knife. Ulus are used for skinning animals, scraping skins, cutting hides when sewing as well as for other household tasks. They are sometimes called 'women's knives' since they usually are associated with women's tasks.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Apr 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Northwest Territories, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inuit, Inuvialuk (Inuvialuit)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 68A00010
label: USNM Number
content: E5814-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife