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the eastern Canadian Arctic, the Inuit value caribou for its meat. Most important,
caribou skins are essential for clothing. Caribou bone is used for tools and its
sinew is made into braided thread.
Sculpture
made of ivory
From South Baffin Island or eastern Hudson Bay
Dating to 1910-1914
Robert J. Flaherty Collection, Gift of Sir William Mackenzie
HC1924
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