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Arrow ToolkitE7438-0

Object itself is marked: "Toolboard, Awl and Wax."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/126 , retrieved 1-28-2020: A toolkit used for making arrows. It consists of a wood cutting board with a small skin pouch and a bone or antler implement used for setting feathers attached to it with sinew thongs. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/5: Toolkits, consisting of a small cutting board and knife for splitting and trimming feathers and small pouches containing red ochre and wax or spruce gum that the ochre was mixed with, were used for making and repairing arrows. Hunting implements often were stained with red ochre in the belief that it gave them added power.

Culture
Eskimo, Inuit and Inuvialuk
Made in
Northwest Territories, Canada
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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