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one of the old igloos at Netiulumi that her husband had selected
for their winter residence, she found this knife buried in the inte
erior. She herself had never had seen one like it before, but the
old men of the tribe had told her that it was one of those made
from the "Saviksue" and used by their women of generations pasted.
Pleased with my prize I gave the woman all the needles I had
left, an entire paper, which unbounded wealth immediately raised
her to the proud position of millionaire among her less fortunate
sisters.
The knife thus obtained is
inches in height with a
cutting edge
inches in length formed of five fragments of the
three
meteoric
iron.
The handle is composed of two pieces of bone y and
the entire implement is of a size to make it seem almost a toy.
Yet small and crude as it is compared with the steel knives which
I havecdistributed among the tribe during the past five years, it
over the fragments of flint
still must have been a great improvement which previous to the
utilization of the metal of the aerolites formed the only cutting
implements of these people.
Diligent inquiry of nearly every member of the trive since
has demonstrated not only that there is no other knife like it in
the tribe but that this is the only one ever seen by any of the
tribe with the exception of one or two of the oldest men.
In March of 1895 while packing various specimens at my
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