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Source of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/36 , retrieved 1-8-2020: Graver with an iron blade set into a handle made from antler or bone. The handle consists of two pieces of antler or bone with matching grooves at one end that hold the blade. Parts of the handle pieces have been cut away near the blade, leaving a slight step at that end. One of the handle pieces has a similar step at the opposite end; the other part of the handle has been sharpened to a point at that end. The two parts of the handle are held together with a hide thong wrapping. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/27: Gravers with iron tips held in bone and antler shafts were used for engraving designs on ivory, bone antler and wood.Listed on page 37 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Western Eskimo".