I have two ulus that are just on display. I got them in Alaska years ago on
a hunting trip. Last evening, I found them in a box of things after we
moved, along with a few dead bugs. One is obviously very old with a
scrimshaw handle made of whalebone. The other is a gleaming white plastic
handle with laser cut images made to look like scrimshaw, with a nice
stainless blade with a bevel on one edge only.

Does anyone have any of these, and how do you like them? I do also have a
third one that has a bowl shaped recession in the matching cutting board.
I've never used these, so wonder how they work. In Alaska, the natives have
one big skinning knife and an ulu, and that's all.

I do have a Joyce Chen mini cleaver that I like a lot. It too has a curved
blade, and is good for slicing and mincing since you can rock the blade. I
never use it for hacking or slamming or cleaving. If I had to have only one
knife, that would be the one.

Steve