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The crooked knife is a woodworking tool of Indigenous origin that is used for making canoes, paddles and snowshoes. One of its characteristics is that it must be drawn toward the user.

This tool with a curved metal blade was widely used by Indigenous peoples and even by a majority of non-Indigenous people as of the period of New France. Designed for working various materials, this knife was originally made from the long incisor tooth of a beaver mounted in a piece of wood. A metal blade eventually replaced the tooth, but retained the latter’s curved shape. Crooked knives are still used today by Indigenous craftsmen like Maurice Picard Jr. for building cedar canoes.