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Discovery of the Only Eskimo Knives in Existence
Made from the Metal of the"Saviksue. If
It was during the first moon of the Arctic winter night
of 1894--95 that I made my unsuccessful attempt to reach the
"Saviksue". During the second moon I made a tour of the Eskimo
settlements in Whale Sound for the purpose of purchasing material
for the equipment for my Inland Ice journey the following spring.
Lee was my companion and one night after a long day's ride upon
our sledges over the frozen surface of the Sound we drove our dogs
across the ice foot in front of the village of Netiüluni in Barden
Bay, and turning them over to the care of our Eskimo friends, en-
tered a couple of adjoining igloos (houses) for our night's rest.
In the morning when Lee came in from his igloo to join me in
our simple breakfast of seal meat, biscuit and coffee, he brought
with him a small 00000 or woman's knife which his hostess
the
wife of Kyangwah wished to give me in exchange for some
needles. Something peculiar in the shape or make of the imple-
ments caused me to take it in my hand and examine it, and I saw
that the cutting edge was composed of five small fragments of iron
ingeniously set in a groove in the ivory handle.
Sending for the woman I asked her where she got the knife and
she replied, "Saviksuami; sukkennuksue" (it is from the great
iron. (the aerolite) It is very old) Further questioning elicit-
ed the information that in the autumn while she was re-building
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