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".

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/1 , retrieved 1-3-2020: Graver with an iron blade set into a handle made from antler. The blade has been sharpened along one edge and at the tip. The handle consists of two pieces of antler with matching grooves at one end that hold the blade. Parts of the handle pieces near the blade have been cut away, leaving a slight step at that end, and several notches have been cut into the outer edges of each piece. The two parts of the handle are secured by a wrapping of braided sinew that is held in position by the notches. 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.

Graver

Graver

Graver

Graver; Field Specimen Inventory notes object as an amorphous flake tool; From level bag.

Graver

Graver; From level bag.

Graver; Field Specimen Inventory notes object as a formed flake tool.

Graver; From level bag.