I was just there last week!! What a wonderful place! I bought two sets. Starting using mine the minute I got home to Tennessee. Thanks for the wonderful experience and ULU. Love it!
It's not that they were woman's knives persay; it's that they were made for the tasks which women traditionally did. At least in Alaska but I figure this holds true for other inuit peoples
Blades were made from several different materials. Hammered copper( hence the city of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories), ground slate in the Western Arctic, meteorite iron, barrel hoops from broken/abandoned barrels, and occasionally ivory flakes. Modern materials include carbon steel carpenter's saws.
