Showing items 6 - 10 of 13 for Western arctic coast.
A hide scraper with wooden handle and metal blade. The wood was selected from driftwood on the beach, chosen with grain that follows the curvature of the hand. The blade is fashioned out of a piece of an old shotgun barrel.
| Accession No. | 2004.010.002 |
| Maker | Mangelana, Clarence; Felix, Norman |
| Culture | Inuvialuit |
| Region | Inuvialuit |
| Location | Tuktoyaktuk, Western arctic coast |
| Date | 2003 |
A wood fishing jigger with cotton string line, muskox horn plug and iron hook. It was used for many years by Reverend Thomas Umaok, an Anglican minister.
| Accession No. | 977.047.001 |
| Maker | Umaok, Thomas |
| Culture | Inuvialuit |
| Region | Inuvialuit |
| Location | Tuktoyaktuk, Western arctic coast |
| Date | c. 1930-1963 |
A knife with a curved steel blade, brass tang and wooden handle. It was used for over 40 years by Sarah Mangelana to cut up whales, fish, caribou, geese and seals, and for fleshing hides.
| Accession No. | 2005.013.003 |
| Maker | Mangelana, Raymond |
| Culture | Inuvialuit |
| Region | Inuvialuit |
| Location | Tuktoyaktuk, Western arctic coast |
| Date | 1960s |
A knife with a wooden handle, metal blade and brass rivets. The maker notes that he used this knife for many years for butchering whales and for preparing muktuk, chunks of whale skin and blubber.
| Accession No. | 2005.013.002 |
| Maker | Mangelana, Clarence |
| Culture | Inuvialuit |
| Region | Inuvialuit |
| Location | Tuktoyaktuk, Western arctic coast |
| Date | 1980s |
A knife made from an old saw blade attached by brass rivets to a hickory wood handle. This type of knife is used for skinning and butchering beluga whales.
| Accession No. | 2005.013.001 |
| Maker | Mangelana, Clarence |
| Culture | Inuvialuit |
| Region | Inuvialuit |
| Location | Tuktoyaktuk, Western arctic coast |
| Date | 2005 |
