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FROM CARD: "NOT IN COLLECTION."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/231 , retrieved 1-28-2020: Whistle or hunting call fashioned from a rounded piece of wood split in two and with slight concavities cut into the matching faces. A piece of baleen is held lengthwise between the two wood pieces, which are bound with sinew in shallow grooves cut into each end. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/31: Inuvialuit hunters used whistles as hunting calls to attract muskrats and waterfowl. They were made with a strip of baleen or bark held between two pieces of wood bound together at each end with sinew. The inner surfaces of the wood pieces are slightly hollowed, exposing the strip of bark or baleen. A whistling sound was made by blowing through the gap.