Snow knife, woman's / model

Description

Model of a woman's snow knife or ulu carved from walrus ivory, one of a group of eight children's toys: North America, Canada, Baffin Island, Cape Dorset, Inuit, collected by John N.S. Buchan, 1938 - 1939

Museum reference

K.1997.418

Collection

Americas

Object name

Snow knife, woman's / model, Ulu / model, Toy, child's

Production information

Cape Dorset, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada, North America

Date

1938 - 1939

Style / Culture

Inuit

Materials

Walrus ivory

Physical description

Walrus ivory

Associations

Collector and owner: Buchan, John Norman Stuart, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, 1911 - 1996
Hudson's Bay Company

References

Tweedsmuir, Lord, Hudson's Bay Trader