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old specimen found at Pingerqalik; it is 30 cm long, 1.6 cm thick at the handle; similar snow-knives are figured by Parry[1] and Hall.[2] Fig. 74 b (found at Amitsoq) is a slender, thin, snow-knife blade of ivory, 37 cm long; the handle end is cut off square with seven holes

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Fig. 73.Modern snow-knife with sheath.
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Fig. 74.Old snow knives.

for fastening on the handle; the blade and handle have run smoothly into each other; greatest thickness 0.9 cm. Boas[3] figures a model of a similar slender snow-knife with a blade of ivory fastened on to a wooden handle. The broad form of snow-knife with one or two shoulders, figured in several places by Boas,[4] seems to be connected with the Thule culture.

  1. ↑ 1824 Plate p. 550. 1.
  2. ↑ 1879, p. 73.
  3. ↑ 1901, p. 94.
  4. ↑ 1907, fig. 208 a (Aivilik), 208 b, d and 209 d (Iglulik), 207 e–f and 208 e (Ponds Inlet).
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