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From card: "Goose Lassoes."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/155 , retrieved 2-6-2020: Bolas with five weights made from moose antler attached to braided sinew cords. Each of the weights has a drilled hole for attaching to a sinew cord. The cords have been joined by braiding them together. Several feathers are attached to the end that is held in the hand. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/68: The bolas is a throwing implement made of several interconnected and weighted cords. It is used by twirling the weighted cords, and then casting them at low-flying birds, entangling the birds in the cords.