I'm not sure if this was used in the kitchen or for cutting leather. Do you?




Thanks .. BP...

Eskimo's use a similar tool called a Ula, but all that I have seen has the handle different. I think it is a chopper for vegies and such. miles

The Ula is what came to mind for me too. Doesn't really look eskimo to either, but I have seen them with lots of different handles.

Could be something a baker would use for cutting large batches of tough dough. Bread, bagel, pasta?

It's an Ulu knife. I bought one when I was hunting in the N.W.T. The Inuit use them daily for cooking, skinning and fleshing hides.

Mike

Single bladed food chopper.

mean set of brass knuckles

*Gulp*

Lorena Bobbitt comes to mind.

Hide scraper. Maybe?

MezzaLuna

For the person who cooks creatively, everything is a kitchen tool.

Good thought John, I mash potatoes with a DeWalt drill.

That would be my guess too.....similar concept but I don't think it's an actual Ula.......

Yup. ULU.

^^ With a inverted handle.

Looks like it would make a handy pizza cutter.

The Italians use a version with handles on both ends of the blade called a mezzaluna.

Someone, Miss Lynn maybe, got it right. Used for chopping vegetables and such in a cutting board with a small depression.

True ulus have far less belly in the blade.

Mesa Luna, or Kitchen chopper, part of a set for use in a wooden bowl with a slightly larger radius.
I have a couple of them.

Exactly. It was used in conjunction with a wooden bowl for chopping vegetables. My grandmother had two of them, along with the wooden bowls. Used them often to chop vegetables. I have one set and it still works as well as when my grandmother used it.

L.W.

EDIT: MCMURPhRJK posted as I was typing this.

Also known as a cabbage chopper. I've got a couple around someplace. Steel handled one @ camp