Sold: $200

An ulu is an all-purpose knife, traditionally used by Eskimo women, for skinning and cleaning animals, cutting food, scraping leather, etc. They actually make great kitchen knives as well. Originally handled in horn, ivory or caribou antler, with a stone blade, they were later made with metal blades as metal became available through trade.

This very large and fancy ulu is hand-cut and forged from a saw-blade and patinaed dark. The forged steel tang is hand-riveted with copper to the blade, which is left rough except for the sharpened edge. The handle is polished deer leg, with a copper ferrule.

The blade edge is about 9.5” long from point to point, with a 14’’ long cutting edge, and the knife is 7.5” tall.