The need to provide Eskimo people with some kind of employment, combined with a potential market for musk ox wool, sparked a domestication program.

It is believed that a healthy musk ox will yield wool for at least twenty years, with some producing more than six pounds yearly. Eskimo villagers are learning the new art of knitting this fine wool. Many Eskimo women knit a scarf sixteen inches wide and forty-eight inches long, weighing a bit less than an ounce!