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Inuit Knots                         121

          Before we turn to the discussion and ethnographical descriptions of knots,
      there remains the sample of Polar Inuit knotting which Sir John Ross brought
      back from his 1818 expedition. High up north on the Greenlandic coast he met
      an Inuit tribe, which had come south for their summer hunting of narhwals.
      During this encounter they presented Ross with a sledge made of bone and
      wood and lashed together. On this sledge several knots and rawhide splices
      have been found [7].






















                      Fig. 6. The Diamond Knot from the Ross Sledge

























                                  Fig. 7. Qitdlaq
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