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dog harness was narrower than that used by the Aiviliks, especially the noose which passes round the off fore-leg, by which means they pull more with the neck. The whip was like that used by the Polar Eskimos: a thin handle with a long, thin lash; it was not plaited of several thongs and was not nearly as heavy as those the Aiviliks use; its purpose was to guide the dogs, just as in Greenland. The team was otherwise guided by a leader dog on an extra long trace, and it answered to the calls; av — av: to the right! ol — ol — ol: to the left! Haa-ov: stop! The Sadlermiut had a lot of dogs, every family ten to fourteen as a rule; they were mostly more slender that the Aivilik dogs, with a long nose and long legs; more than half of them were red. They were never tied up and were always fed well. Whelping bitches were placed in special little stone houses; if they were harnessed on to a sledge, their teats were protected with a piece of caribou skin. At the settlements each team kept to itself, held together and never mixed in with the others, even although they were not tied up.

Besides the ordinary dog sledge the Sadlermiut used a toboggan of baleen (see Boas 1901, fig. 95). Saorre once saw a Sadlermiut driving one of these; it was about 2 metres long, 1 metre wide; the frame consisted of an edge of baleen; the construction on the whole was like that illustrated by Boas. In the nose there was a hole with a thong, which the man held, besides the draught line; there were holes in the edges for the lashing thongs. The dogs, five or six, were inspanned in the usual manner. Toboggans were only used in the spring and the fall when the snow was soft; sometimes simply a bear skin was used instead.

Carrying bags for dogs were used on summer journeys; in the spring months the dogs wore boots, pieces of sealskin with holes for the claws, in order to protect the feet against the sharp edges of the half-melted ice, they were also used in summer on land journeys to protect the feet of the dogs against the sharp lime-stone.

The kayak was like the sea kayak of the Aiviliks; it was not used for caribou hunting. On some the man-hole was, like that of the Polar Eskimos, straight at the back, on others oval; there were five cross straps in front and three behind the hole; they were sewn fast to the skin, the stitches however only going half through the latter. The bows were slightly bent up, the stern less so. The paddle was of wood with bone edging; at the inner end of the blade was a stump of bear skin which acted as a drip-ring. When the kayak was not in use it was placed on supports of stone (see Boas 1907, Pl. V, fig. 2) or, in the fall, of ice; if they were to be laid up for a long time a number of stones were often placed on edge around it and covered over with turf.