Ennadai saw-toothed blade

Source term: zoemhout / snorrebot

Nearly ninety centimetres of pale wood, thin as a lath and rounded at both ends, with a fine row of teeth cut around its far tip: this blade came from Ennadai Lake, in the barren lands west of Hudson Bay, and entered the Rotterdam museum in 1955. Its cord ends not in a loop but in a folded scrap of canvas, a grip for the hand. Ennadai was the home of the Ahiarmiut, inland Inuit who lived almost wholly on the barren-ground caribou, far from the sea and its seals. Two years after this blade left the lake, the government moved them off it.

Particulars

Object

A long, thin wooden blade, 87 × 8 × 0.7 cm, rounded at both ends, with a row of small teeth cut around the far tip; the cord is tied at the other end and finishes in a folded scrap of canvas for a handhold (Wereldmuseum WM-39471).

Function

Not recorded.