Ulu
Videos
An ulu is an all-purpose knife traditionally used by Inuit, Iñupiat, Yupik, and Aleut women. It is used in applications as diverse as skinning and cleaning animals, cutting a child's hair, cutting foo
An ulu in the western Arctic style
Feast of muktuk with uluit in use: The woman on the right is using an ulu to cut muktuk; a larger ulu is lying on the cardboard in front of her. (1997)
West Greenlandic (Kalaallit) ulu
East Greenlandic (Tunumiit) ulu
Ulukhaktok
Videos
Ulukhaktok is a small Inuvialuit Settlement Region hamlet on the west coast of Victoria Island, in the Inuvik Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada.
Ulu
…technology in the Arctic. The handle could also be carved from bone, and wood was sometimes used when it was available. In certain areas, such as Ulukhaktok ("where there is material for ulus"), Northwest Territories, copper was used for the cutting surface. The modern ulu is still often made with a caribou…
Looking at Ulukhaktok from the bluffs that give the community its name