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   ocr: Meteorite - I to put blades of meteoritic material into their tools of narwhal ivory, wal- rus ivory, and bone. Some of these tools they traded to Ross for shirts and necklaces. The metal, they told him, came from an "iron mountain" on the northern shore of the bay. Later analysis of the iron revealed the presence of nickel, pointing to its meteoritic origin. Not until late in the century, however, when they were able to obtain 612