Randy pretty well covers ooloos in his linked article.

Actually, the rennaissance should be credited to those 'junk

tourist' examples. I was stationed in Alaska when the Alaska

Ulu company started up. Yes, they are mass produced- and oh

yes,employ many native alaskans in Anchorage. If you want an

inexpensive introduction, by all means patronise them.

Before AUC oolos were a local secret.

A midle of the road example is www.ulumaker.com- traditional

patterns, tools steel, moose antler handles. Ooloos also make

for handy survival tools.We stamped out several at Airstation

Kodiak and taped them to the flat stock of the ithaca Survival

rifles later commercially copied as the M6.