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Another sledge (Aivilingmiut, Southampton Island) has runners. of whole planks, 4,9 m long, 18 cm high and 5 cm wide; the distance between the runners is 46 cm; at the front they bend up a little, the nose-ends being 14 cm above the upper edge of the runners; the upper part of the nose consists of separate pieces of wood, 75 cm. long, nailed on. The cross-bars begin 90 cm from the nose; there are 17 crossbars (originally 19), 69–70 cm long, 5–18 cm wide and 2½–5 cm thick. Shoeing of whale bone, 5–9 cm wide.

A third sledge, from Ponds Inlet, has runners 2,70 m × 22 cm × 5 cm, distance apart 52 cm. The first cross-bar begins 60 cm from Image missingFig. 43.Pieces for holding the draugth-strap. 1 : 2. the nose, which is not bent up at all. There are 11 cross-bars, 76–84 cm long, 7½–14 cm wide. Whale bone shoeing, six shoes in all. of which two are on one runner, four on the other; the width of the shoes is 8 cm, thickness 1 cm, although towards the nose. it is about 2 cm.

The biggest sledge I saw in Repulse Bay had the following measurements: length 5,9 m, height of runners 20 cm, thickness 6½, distance apart 48 cm; 15 crossbars, 78–91 cm long. The runners were shod with iron and there was also iron shoeing on the upper side of the noses extending as far as 21 cm from the tip.

The usual size of a travelling sledge is 4½ to 5 m long, width between the runners 40 cm.[1] On shorter trips, especially on the sea ice, very small sledges are used. just big enough to hold one man. A sledge of this kind, from the Aivilingmiut, used especially in utoq hunting, is 1.07 cm long, height of runners 8½ cm, thickness 2.2 cm, distance apart 36½ cm; the noses are not bent up; distance to the first cross-bar 24 cm; five cross-bars, 7–8 cm wide, 43–49 cm long, each cross-bar having four pairs of notches; eight whale bone shoes, 4½ cm wide, fastened on with iron nails.

Fig. 43 b (Ponds Inlet) is a bone piece for holding the draughtstrap, 6.6 cm long, of the same type as that described above. Two buckles, of the same shape as that described, from Iglulik and Repulse Bay, are of antler, 7.4 and 5.8 cm long.[2] Besides this form. ordinary bone toggles (sanariaq) are also used for connection the trace.

  1. ↑ Cf. Boas 1901 p. 90.
  2. ↑ See Boas 1907 fig. 220.
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