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From card: "Walrus hide."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/203 , retrieved 1-23-2020: The Smithsonian Institution catalogue card identifies this as a line made from walrus hide. Walrus were rare in the Anderson River area, and it is more likely to have been made from the hide of a bearded seal. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/40: Lines made from various types of animal skins were used on harpoons, for tying things together, and for a variety of other purposes. Lines up to several metres in length were made cutting a narrow strip in one continuous piece from a single hide. The skins were first scraped to remove the underlying flesh, and the hair was also removed.