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Snow knife
A snow knife or snow saw ( Inuktitut: panaAn Inuktitut-English Dictionary of Northern Quebec, Labrador, and Eastern Arctic Dialects (with an English-Inuktitut Index) Lucien Schneider. 238 239. pamiulik panirsimajuq ... 6 adg (not 5e) pana ) is a tool used in the construction of igluit (snow houses) by the Inuit people of the Arctic. The snow knife was originally made from available materials such as bone or horn but the Inuit adapted to using metal after the arrival of Europeans.
Usage examples of "snow knife".
I did as I was told, and Imnak, with a large, curved, bone, saw-toothed knife, a snow knife, began to cut at a nearby drift of snow.