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chained_bear commented on the word blanket toss
"The Eskimos' influence was widespread: during celebrations such as the Fourth of July, Native games competed with the brass bands and parades; there were kayak races in the Snake River and a blanket toss on the tundra, in which a huge swath of walrus skin was sewn together and held taut while a contestant was hurled into the air. Traditionally, Natives used the blanket toss as a tool for spotting whales."
--Gay Salisbury and Laney Salisbury, The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race against an Epidemic (NY and London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2003), 26
January 24, 2017