Editing Spray deck (section)

=== Gut ===
[[File:Kayak hatch, Aleut, collected c. 1850 - Etholén collection, Museum of Cultures (Helsinki) - DSC04912.JPG|thumb|A (probably [[Yupik peoples|Yupik]]?) kayak with a translucent gut sprayskirt attached to the coaming. The ribs have broken (probably due to the skin shrinking).]] 

Sprayskirts (and [[tuilik]]s) can also be made of gut<ref name="Pissurcuutet">Yuungnaqpiallerput : [http://www.yupikscience.org/3coastspring/3-1b.html Pissurcuutet Imarpigmi = Tools for Ocean Hunting]</ref> from the intestines of sea mammals or bears.<ref name="Franreed">[[Fran Reed|Reed, Fran]] (2008). "[http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1127&context=tsaconf Embellishments of the Alaska Native gut parka]". ''Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings'', Paper 127.</ref> The gut is turned inside-out to clean both sides, then inflated to dry. Inflated gut dries quickly. If it is dried in cold, dark, windy weather, it becomes opaque and white, and is known as "winter gut". "Summer gut" is yellowish and transparent, and stiffer. The gut is then slit open lengthwise and the strips are sewn into a garment.<ref name="Franreed"/> The smoother inside of the gut becomes the outside of the garment.<ref name="Imarpigmiutarnek Piliat">Yuungnaqpiallerput : [http://www.yupikscience.org/3coastspring/3-3.html Imarpigmiutarnek Piliat  = Things Made from Sea Mammals]</ref>