"storyknife" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "story + knife",
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          "ref": "1985, Judith Kleinfeld, Alaska's Small Rural High Schools: Are They Working?, page 111",
          "text": "Pretty Girt Students sell a packet containing a hand-carved storyknife, examples of stories, and illustrations. Villagers tell stories and illustrate them with drawings carved in the snow, mud, or sand.",
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          "ref": "1994, Jaipaul L. Roopnarine, James Ewald Johnson, Frank H. Hooper, Children's Play in Diverse Cultures, page 188",
          "text": "This is confirmed by Molly, a ten-year-old cousin, who comes into the kitchen waving her storyknife at us.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Ann Fienup-Riordan, Wise Words of the Yup'ik People: We Talk to You Because We Love You",
          "text": "Back when we used the storyknife all the time, qulirat [traditional tales] were readily available.",
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          "ref": "2013, Carolyn Kremers, Upriver, page xii",
          "text": "A Yup'ik Eskimo storyknife was usually made from wood, bone, or ivory by a father, uncle, or grandfather for a young girl in the family.",
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  "etymology_text": "story + knife",
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