Ulukhaktok
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Ulukhaktok is a small Inuvialuit Settlement Region hamlet on the west coast of Victoria Island, in the Inuvik Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada.
Looking at Ulukhaktok from the bluffs that give the community its name
Ulu
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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
Ulukhaktok
…in the Amundsen Gulf. In 2006, the community was renamed, Ulukhaktok, the traditional Kangiryuarmiutun name for the area, which means "the place where ulu parts are found", or "a large bluff where we used to collect raw material to make ulus". The large bluff that overlooks Ulukhaktok was the source that…
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