{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "needle-and-sinew",
 "type": "tool",
 "names": {
  "name": "Needle and sinew",
  "local": "ᑲᑭᓐᓂᖅ",
  "local_lang": "Inuktitut",
  "said": "A sewing needle, a sooted thread, and the skin sewn once"
 },
 "region": [
  "arctic"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "family": "stitch"
 },
 "instrument": {
  "material": [
   "bone",
   "steel",
   "caribou sinew"
  ],
  "points": "one needle, carrying thread",
  "worked": "drawn",
  "hands": 2
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "The same needle that sewed the clothing, threaded with sinew blackened in soot and drawn under the skin.",
  "story": "Skin stitching leaves the pigment on the thread's path. It is also the reason the practice belonged to women: the needle case was theirs, the skill was theirs, and sewing was the technology the household ran on.\n\nA poked method existed alongside it; the revival teaches both."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "เข็มเล่มเดียวกับที่เย็บเสื้อผ้า ร้อยเส้นเอ็นชุบเขม่า แล้วลอดใต้ผิวหนัง"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "kakiniit",
   "as": "What it makes.",
   "rel": "tradition"
  },
  {
   "to": "stitch",
   "as": "The method.",
   "rel": "method"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:wp-kakiniit"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:wp-kakiniit"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "high",
 "updated": "2026-09-19",
 "kin_in": []
}