Tautirut subclass of bowed string instrument
The tautirut (Inuktitut syllabics: ᑕᐅᑎᕈᑦ or tautiruut, also known as the Eskimo fiddle) is a bowed zither native to the Inuit culture of  Canada.
Lucien M. Turner described the "Eskimo violin" in 1894 as being...made of birch or spruce, and the two strings are of coarse, loosely twisted sinew. The bow has a strip of whalebone in place of horsehair, and is resined with spruce gum. This fiddle is held across the lap when played.
The Canadian anthropologist Ernest William Hawkes described the tautirut in 1916:
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