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Description: | skin pouch containing three ivory plugs (tuputang) 'used for closing wounds on slain animals' to stop them sinking, two loops on pouch, one ivory peg and one harpoon head (Naulang) in iron, brass mounted, two-pronged
"The Inuit of Arctic America used all their limited natural resources to provide food, shelter and equipment to allow them to survive in the extreme conditions of the area. Men carried a sewing kit as part of their hunting equipment. They sewed the hides from their prey animals by piercing the skin with carved ivory bodkins and sewing them together with ivory needles and threads of sinew. Ivory carving was also a long-established skill, and tools and decorative items were made. This is a skin needle-case with two skin loops, probably to attach it to clothing and an extra sheath attached, sewn together with sinew. It contains three ivory wound plugs, 'tauputang' which are pin-shaped and have flattened points. A square-sectioned peg with a perforation at the head is attached to the kit by a twisted sinew thread, as is an iron harpoon head, or 'naulang' with a brass socket and a forked tail, which probably was kept in the small conical sheath. There may have originally been a needle, now lost. This is a kit that would be used when seal-hunting, the plugs and peg were used to close the wound in the carcase to prevent it filling with water and sinking, and also to prevent the loss of blood and blubber. The kit comes from Cape Dorset, Baffin Island, Canada and was in use at the end of the 19th or beginning of the 20th century."
Author: Feilden,Rosemary Date: 2000 Purpose: SCRAN
Field collector: Livingstone, J | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDUA University of Aberdeen, Marischal Museum | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1850-1924 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Creator: | Inuit | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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