1928 Scrimshawed Caribou Bone Snow Knife tool handles liveauctioneers

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with a slightly squarish shape to the rings

but I believe that is more a product of the aging of the wood than remnants of paint

featuring mustaches and beards of real hair

I've always got an eye peeled for beautiful antique sets of spillikins

1928 Scrimshawed Caribou Bone Snow Knife tool handles liveauctioneersAt first I took this scrimshawed blade for a letter opener, but I have since learned that it is, I believe, much more interestingly an Inuit snow knife! From what I have read, some snow knives (as I believe is most likely the case with this smallish, decorated one) were used by young girls as stylists to draw pictures in the snow, with these being passed down from older to younger girls. Other snow knives were used as tools for cutting hard packed