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Clips, Clamps and Cleats…
Greenlanders had many more deck lines on their crafts than did their Pacific Rim counterparts. Most of the attachment points were merely places along a series of lines running laterally along the deck where an implement could be secured by shoving its tip or end under a deck line and letting the tension of that line hold the implement fast. One innovative way to quickly get an edge up and under the fairly snug line was to place a bead made from ivory or bone on the line to raise it up from…
