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FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN PROCEEDINGS, USNM, VOL. 60; PL. 17, NO.7; P.48."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/96 , retrieved 1-8-2020: Saw with an iron blade hafted to a handle made of antler. The blade is rectangular, and has teeth that are only slightly raised along the cutting edge. The blade is attached to the handle by two rivets. One edge of the handle has three wide, shallow notches that provide a secure grip. 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.Listed on page 115 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "History of the Saw".