Converting the tool back-and-forth from an ulu to a hatchet is merely a matter of spreading the locking Zytel handles and reversing them. |
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A small brass pendant shaped like an ulu hung below her chest as she sat in the witness chair, wearing a black and brown sweater and black jeans. |
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Traditional sewing equipment consisted of an ulu, needle and awl, thimble and thimble-guard, and a needlecase. |
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If an awl was not available, a pointed tool, a splinter of bone or the corner of an ulu served to make the needle-hole. |
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The ulu was made by the Inuvialuit, the Inuit living in the western Canadian Arctic. |
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This is an early style ulu, as the blade is set directly into the handle without a stem. |
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This ulu is representative of one of the styles developed by the beginning of the 20th century. |
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According to the traditional way of life, when a girl marries she takes her ulu and lamp to her husband's tent. |
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An ulu is a type of round knife used by Inuit women to prepare food and clean animal pelts. |
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Another favourite item is an ulu, a semi-circular knife that Inuit women have used for centuries and still use today to cut up seal meat. |
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Stone tools tend to be polished slate rather than chipped stone, and include lanceolate knives, projectile heads, and the ulu transverse-bladed knife. |
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A large ulu can be used to butcher game or to scrape skins. |
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The ulu shape brings together a number of factors for maximum efficiency. |
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Modern kitchens in Nunavik invariably include an ulu or two. |
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Thule culture is characterized by a very different material culture that includes the bow drill, ulu, bow and arrow, kayak and umiaq as well as soapstone lamps and containers. |
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Every girl is given her own ulu to be used by her exclusively. |
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This ulu has an oblong, decorated, ivory handle. |
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The style of an ulu can indicate where it comes from. |
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According to Leah d'Argencourt Idlout, of Mittimatilik, former Chair of the Arctic Society of Canada, the point of a small ulu can be used as an awl to make loops for boot thongs or for lacing a skin to a drying rack. |
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Among the Inuit, the traditional ulu women's knife was made with an antler, horn, or ivory handle. |
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Little girls were given a tiny ulu so they could learn sewing skills. |
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The ulu has been in use by Inuit people for thousands of years. |
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The crescent-shaped steel blade of this ulu is bevelled on one side. |
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When she dies her ulu or its model accompanies her to her resting-place. |
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Genocide. Flooding the valleys and stripping the limu clean from the rocks Sweeping away the 'opae from the streams the ulu from the land and the maoli from the earth. |
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A wooden vessel maneuvered to dock at a pier on Mahakam Ulu River, the sound of its whistle wailing far and wide. |
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Some of the tribes that reside in Sarawak, Malaysia are the Iban, Orang Ulu, and Bidayuh. |
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Once, I spent nine days tracking agile gibbons with a Japanese Ph.D research student in Kedah's Ulu Muda Forest and we never even got that close to the gibbons. |
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The Jakarta-Serpong toll road extends from Bumi Serpong Damai, through Bintaro satellite town to meet the Jakarta ring road in Ulu Jami. |
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Diyarbakir boasts numerous medieval mosques and madrassahs, crowned by the 11th Century Ulu Cami constructed by alternating bands of blacks basalt and limestone. |
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