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short cross-stay is a bone peg, 7 cm long, set in obliquely, which also forms a rest for the harpoon. The paddle is 2.93 m long; of this each of the blades accounts for 1.07 m; 92 cm from the ends is a small piece of seal-thong which acts as a drip-ring. At the middle the width of the paddle is 4 cm, that of the blades 10 cm; the thickness at the middle is 2½ cm.

From Aivilik and Wager Bay we have three broken pieces of paddles which have been edged with bone, held to the wood by long bone pegs; the breadth of this edging is about 1 cm. Fig. 53 (Ponds Inlet) is a rest for the kayak harpoon; it is of antler, 8.0 cm long; on the underside grooves for the lasing lead from the holes to the ends.

The skeleton of a kayak at Ponds Inlet was built in the following manner: Fig. 54 shows the skeleton of the deck: the two gunwales, the fore-and-aft beam and the twenty deckbeams which are lashed on to the gunwales; the fore-and-aft beam is slightly morticed into the five foremost deck-beams but elsewhere lies above them; it is also morticed into the stout, curved deck-beam in front of the manhole. The bottom is formed of a keel which runs from stem to stern, two streaks on each side of it, the two outermost running from the stern to the third deck-beam, the two innermost between deck-beams 4 and 5 from the stern to the sixth from the stem; the distance between the outer edges of the outermost streaks at the middle of the kayak is 47 cm. Furthermore, there are 27 ribs. curved, thin pieces of wood which run from gunwale to gunwale, lashed to the streaks; the height from deck-beam to the upper edge of the keel is, at the middle, 30 cm. Between each rib the streaks in the bottom are lashed together with seal-thong. The construction of the stern (a) and stem (b) will be seen from the sketch fig. 55. The coaming of the manhole is not made fast to the rest of the skeleton; it is 52 cm wide, 45 cm long, 13 cm high; at the