. Bulletin. Ethnology. CENTRAL ESKIMO SLEDGE (.BOAs) rawhide thongs would hold them to- gether. In the use of these the makers were as ingenious at seizing and making knots as the Pacific islanders. The parts of a sled are the runners, shoes, crossbars, handles, lashings, lines, traces, toggles, packing, webbing, and braces. These belong to the fully equipped sled, which is a marvel of convenience, but some of them may be wanting. There are four plans of construction besides numerous makeshifts: (1) The bed lashed to solid runners; (2) the bed on pairs of bent sticks spliced together or arched
. Bulletin. Ethnology. CENTRAL ESKIMO SLEDGE (.BOAs) rawhide thongs would hold them to- gether. In the use of these the makers were as ingenious at seizing and making knots as the Pacific islanders. The parts of a sled are the runners, shoes, crossbars, handles, lashings, lines, traces, toggles, packing, webbing, and braces. These belong to the fully equipped sled, which is a marvel of convenience, but some of them may be wanting. There are four plans of construction besides numerous makeshifts: (1) The bed lashed to solid runners; (2) the bed on pairs of bent sticks spliced together or arched and fas- tened below to runners; (3) the bed rest- ing on a square mortised frame, probably an introduced type; (4) the bed flat on the ground, the toboggan. In. the E., the Eskimo, being in some places poorly provided with wood, made sled runners. DOG HARNESS, CENTRAL ESKIMO (bCAs) of porous bone, pieces of which, cut to shape and pierced, were sewed together neatly. The shoeing consisted of short strips of ivory or smooth bone, pierced and fastened on with treenails or thongs, which were countersunk to prevent abrad- ing. When in use the shoes and runners were coated with ice or often with blood and salt. Boas figures a complete sled from Cumberland gulf, and Mason a much pieced and perforated runner from Green- land, brought by Dr Kane. In the Mac- kenzie r. district were brought together the riding and freighting toboggan, the framed sleds of the Kutchln, and varie- ties with solid wooden runners. The greatest variety of forms, figured and de- scribed by Murdoch and Nelson, .were found in Alaska. The main types are the low, ilat sled without a rail, for carry- ing bulky objects and umiaks, and the built-up sled with a high rail on each side for loads of smaller articles and camp ecjuipage. Murdoch descril)es a shoe of ice, 1 ft high and 6 in. wide, placed by the Pt Barrow Eskimo on the runners. Nelson figures the details of the two types of sled about Bering str., together
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