Also known as women's knife, uluit, uluk, sakiaq, saakiq
thumb|An ulu in the western Arctic style An ulu (; plural: uluit; sometimes referred to as 'woman's knife') is an all-purpose knife traditionally used by Inuit, Iñupiat, Yupik, and Aleut women. It is used in applications as diverse as skinning and cleaning animals, cutting a child's hair, cutting food, and sometimes even trimming blocks of snow and ice used to build an igloo. They are widely sold as souvenirs in Alaska.
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Within Vinony's link graph, ulu is referenced by 353 other articles, and connects out to Inuktitut, Opinel knife and Alaska.
Vinony files it under Inuit tools, Inuit weapons and Knives.
Its subject is documented across 13 Wikipedia language editions.
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- knife
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- West Greenlandic Ulo noBG.jpg
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- Uluit
- native label
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thumb|An ulu in the western Arctic style An ulu (; plural: uluit; sometimes referred to as 'woman's knife') is an all-purpose knife traditionally used by Inuit, Iñupiat, Yupik, and Aleut women. It is used in applications as diverse as skinning and cleaning animals, cutting a child's hair, cutting food, and sometimes even trimming blocks of snow and ice used to build an igloo. They are widely sold as souvenirs in Alaska.
==Name== In the Nunatsiavummiutut variety of Inuttitut, which is spoken in Nunatsiavut (Northern Labrador), the word is spelled , and in Tunumiisut (East Greenlandic) it is or .
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “ulu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.