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FROM CARD: "INVENTORIED 1977."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/162 , retrieved 1-8-2020: Saw with an iron blade and a handle made of whale bone. The blade is rectangular, and has teeth along both edges. The blade is set into a bed cut into one face of the handle, and is held in place with three copper rivets. On the opposite face of the handle are three shallow circle and dot' incisions, which may have signified ownership of the tool. 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.