Alaskan Ulus and Primitive Knives – Mark Knapp Custom Knives

Dating back to 2500 BC, an ulu is an all-purpose knife traditionally used by Inuit, Yup’ik and Aleut women. These versatile knives were used in everything from skinning and cleaning animals, cutting a child’s hair, cutting food and, if necessary, trimming blocks of snow and ice used to build an igloo.

These ulus are individually handmade by Mark. They are both practical and beautiful. Choose from a variety of handles made from laminated sheep horn, musk ox horn, moose antler, fossil ivory or exotic wood each distinctly different and each with a matching stand.

Our primitive knives are hand napped and built by Mark. We use a variety of handle materials; such as Pleistocene elk, camel and horse bone, ancient steppe bison rib bone and ancient caribou and elk antler, each distinctly different and each with a matching stand.

We take the following forms of payment; Paypal, Check, Money Order, American Express, Visa or Master Card. If you like, feel free to call in your credit card payment at 1-(907)-452-7477. We are located in Fairbanks, Alaska and we are four hours earlier than Eastern Time. We use USPS Priority flat rate for shipping.

If you live outside the United States, please contact us directly, via phone or email, so we can discuss shipping/insurance charge. We do not declare lower values on customs forms.