Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Netting shuttle, accession number 2-6637, described as Whalebone netting shuttle (baleen). According to Nelson, "the Eskimo of eastern Siberia and of St. Lawrence Island must have derived the pattern of their shuttles from farther south, and the imported design thus replaced the ordinary kind in use among their relatives of the islands of Bering strait and the American shore." INUA: Spirit World of the Bering Sea Eskimo: "St. Lawrence Islanders obviously liked the design of the whalers' net shuttles, which they copied and made out of baleen.