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This miniature scoop has a net made from hide sinew laced across the hoop. It is a model of the ice scoops used around seal holes.
Source of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/19 , retrieved 12-10-2019: This object is identified in the Smithsonian Institution catalogue as an 'ice scoop'; however, that identification is uncertain. It is a cup-shaped implement made from muskox horn that has been sewn into a covering made of dehaired and softened hide, likely from a newborn caribou.