"Here we have all the various tools a woman needs to prepare a sealskin. One tool is for taking off the thick layer of blubber, the next to remove the layer of fat underneath. Once the fat has been scraped off, the skin is soaked in salt water. To squeeze out the water, the squarish utensil is stroked along the grain of the fur. Finally, the dry skin is stretched with the tool on the right to soften it. Scraping the skin takes a lot of skill. If you don't do it properly, you can easily cut a hole and ruin the skin."
Jacoposie Tiglik, personal communication with July Papatsie, November 2000.

Edited by Maria Von Finkenstein, Nuvisavik: The Place Where We Weave, (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press and Canadian Museum of Civilization, 2002), p. 158.