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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/80 , retrieved 1-28-2020: This is a small copy of a snow shovel, made of wood. A bent wood handle is mortised to the paddle-shaped shovel. On the same side there is an incised line running diagonally across the blade of the shovel, which is crossed at about its midpoint by a smaller incised lin. A triangular suspension hole has been cut through the handle. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/53: Snow shovels were used for clearing snow and for throwing snow onto sod houses and houses made of snow blocks to provide extra insulation.