Jacobsen collected this pair of carvings at Cape Vancouver. He wrote that such "Thunnerasut" (tuunrissuutet, "things of the helping spirits") were "kept in the house to keep happiness and blessings. It is possible that the spirit of a dead person lives in this object." Nelson collected similar paired smiling-male and frowning-female charm images that the hunter lashed inside his kayak's cockpit to spiritually "balance" his craft between sea (the frowning face of a seal) and sky (the moon's smiling face).
