ULU
Once a sea mammal had been killed, it was towed to land where it was cut up and the skin flayed. The men harpooned the animals and usually the women cleaned the skins. Ulus originally had stone blades, but were later made of iron with shafts of bone or wood.
In the ice floe you see both scrapers and a ulu. What are the differences and similarities?
Imagine that you developed the ulu. How would you describe it so that the others at the settlement can see that it is more efficient than the scraper?
Ulu means knife in Greenlandic. The ulu has misleadingly been seen as a woman’s tool and gained status of a female symbol. Why?
Once a sea mammal had been killed, it was towed to land where it was cut up and the skin flayed. The men harpooned the animals and usually the women cleaned the skins. Ulus originally had stone blades, but were later made of iron with shafts of bone or wood.
In the ice floe you see both scrapers and a ulu. What are the differences and similarities?
Imagine that you developed the ulu. How would you describe it so that the others at the settlement can see that it is more efficient than the scraper?
Ulu means knife in Greenlandic. The ulu has misleadingly been seen as a woman’s tool and gained status of a female symbol. Why?
