Mitqutausiqpikiit
Sewing needles were kept in a tube-like case with a skin strap running through the centre. The needles were stuck into the strap, and then pulled into the case. Hooks for fastening the case to a belt, or holders for thimbles made from skin, were often attached to one end of the leather straps.
"Out of the bones and ivory of fossil mammoth, they carve sewing-tools and needlecases that they decorate with bits of blue glass." (Émile Petitot, quoted in Savoie, 1971: 175)
