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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/18 , retrieved 1-24-2020: Saw with an iron blade hafted to a handle made of antler. The blade has teeth that are only slightly raised along the cutting edge. It has been inserted into a slot cut into one edge of the handle and held in place with two rivets. The handle also has three notches cut into each edge, and it may originally have been intended that the blade would have been secured in place by wrapping lashings around the handle and through holes (which are not present) in the blade. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/49: Saws for cutting wood, bone, antler and ivory had thin metal blades attached to bone handles. Shallow notches in the saw blades were made by striking the edge with the thicker blade of a knife.