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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/246 , retrieved 1-28-2020: Toggle made from whale bone. It is widest at the mid-point, where a slot for attaching a line has been prepared by first drilling three holes side by side and then joining them by cutting away the excess material. 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.