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Siglitun Terms

Qaryut puungat

Description

Arrows were kept in skin quivers that hunters carried slung on their backs. Red ochre stain and other decorations were often added to bring luck or to give power to the hunter.

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Historical Information

"The Eskimo quiver is made from the skin of the reindeer or the white wolf, hair outwards, and is decorated at its end with some ornament or strips of baleen. The arrows are placed in it with their heads upwards." (Émile Petitot, quoted in Savoie, 1971: 155)

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