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Snow Knife1718/16

A one piece blade with handle.

Culture
Inuit
Material
antler
Made in
Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut, Canada and Igluligaarjuk, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Snow Knife1718/14

A one piece blade with a protrusion above the handle.

Culture
Inuit
Material
antler
Made in
Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut, Canada and Igluligaarjuk, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Scoop1718/13

White-yellow coloured bone piece that widens at one end and tapers to a round point on the other. Down the length of the object are eight similar-sized grooved holes in a row. On the top side of the object are two smaller holes and on the underside is a curled edge.

Culture
Inuit
Material
polar bear bone ?
Made in
Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut, Canada and Igluligaarjuk, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fishing Tool1718/12

White-grey segment of antler with a band of green thread wrapped around one end. The opposite end has one small offshoot grown perpendicularly from the main segment of antler.

Culture
Inuit
Material
antler, dye and cotton fibre
Made in
Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut, Canada and Igluligaarjuk, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Hammer ?1718/11

White-yellow bone carved into a handle with a thick, flared, triangular segment on the end. The triangular segment has a large cavity bored into it. The handle has a small, circular hole bored completely through it.

Culture
Inuit
Material
bone
Made in
Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut, Canada and Igluligaarjuk, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Leister Straightener ToolNa1709

Curved, grey-yellow horn(?) with a hole bored through near the tip.

Culture
Inuit
Material
horn ?
Made in
Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut, Canada and Igluligaarjuk, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Knife1718/7

Ulu type knife with textured metal blade that is crescent shaped with a metal shank that attaches to a yellow-brown coloured handle with slightly curved edged.

Culture
Inuit
Material
metal and antler ?
Made in
Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut, Canada and Igluligaarjuk, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bow DrillNa1712 a-g

An object in seven parts. Part a is a curved, white-grey section of antler with a skin strap strung from one end to the other. Part b is a white-yellow skin bag with a braided sinew string attached near the top; all seven pieces fit into the bag. Affixed within the bag is a commercial, blue and white square sticker with an image of an igloo with the words "canadian eskimo art." Parts c--f are cylindrical wooden sticks that have chisel-like bone (?) prongs attached to one end surrounded by a grey ring of antler; the sticks are also narrower at the centre than at the ends. Part g is a short, yellow-brown segment of bone with a circular indentation in its centre.

Culture
Inuit
Material
wood, skin, sinew, antler and bone
Made in
Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut, Canada and Igluligaarjuk, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fishing Tool1718/35

A small yellow-white oval piece with a concave top and a hole at one end for a braided sinew band.

Culture
Inuit
Material
walrus tusk ? and sinew
Made in
Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut, Canada and Igluligaarjuk, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Drill1718/30

A tool with a medium-sized metal point inset into a long cylindrical light brown wood handle with sinew wrapped around the top.

Culture
Inuit
Material
wood, metal and sinew
Made in
Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut, Canada and Igluligaarjuk, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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