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Item number E7449-0 from the National Museum of Natural History.
Item number E7449-0 from the National Museum of Natural History.
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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/215 , retrieved 1-28-2020: Small toggle made from bone or ivory. It is widest at the midpoint, where a hole has been drilled for attaching a line, part of which remains in place. The two ends have been carved to represent the faces of animals, with shallow drilled holes representing their eyes. The length of the faces suggests that they are caribou representations. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/57: Toggles are a type of handle attached to the end of lines. They were used at the ends of harpoon lines, and on lines used for dragging seals and other heavy items over snow and ice. The also were used to join two lines by passing a toggle attached to one line through a loop on another line.
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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/215 , retrieved 1-28-2020: Small toggle made from bone or ivory. It is widest at the midpoint, where a hole has been drilled for attaching a line, part of which remains in place. The two ends have been carved to represent the faces of animals, with shallow drilled holes representing their eyes. The length of the faces suggests that they are caribou representations. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/57: Toggles are a type of handle attached to the end of lines. They were used at the ends of harpoon lines, and on lines used for dragging seals and other heavy items over snow and ice. The also were used to join two lines by passing a toggle attached to one line through a loop on another line.
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