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FROM CARD: "BOW TOOLS. 1 SPIKE, 2 TIGHTENERS FOUND 1/1981. MFL. INVENTORIED 1981."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/249 , retrieved 1-28-2020: A set of tools for attaching sinew backing to a bow. The set consists of a marlinspike and two sinew twisters made from bone or antler. Each has a drilled hole at one end, and it is likely that at one time these tools had been strung together on a thong. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/11: Sinew backing was attached to a bow using a marlinspike and a pair of cable twisters. One end of the marlinspike is tapered, and is used to raise strands of sinew when lashing them to the stave, and for tucking in the ends of the lashings. Cable twisters are turned outwards in opposite directions at each end. They are used in pairs for twisting strands of braided sinew into cables that run along the centre part of the bow stave.

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