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× 2.9 cm; it has presumably been made according to the European pattern and used for the draught-strap.

The whip (iperautaq), which is used when sledge-driving, consists of a short handle of wood or bone (ipo) and a long lash of seal-thong (iperautaq); the rear end of the lash is very thick and formed of several thongs plaited or sewn together. Fig. 49 (Aivilingmiut) is a whip of this kind. The wooden handle is 29 cm long; the foremost 12 cm of it are closely wound with thin strips of seal-thong, one

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Fig. 48.Trace buckles and toggles.
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Fig. 49.Whip.

of which passes round the end of the handle and back again. The rear 75 cm of the lash are formed of closely plaited, thin thong, round, about 2½ cm thick, decreasing evenly in thickness towards the fore end. The rearmost, thick part runs into another piece, 23 cm long, consisting of two thick strips of seal-thong, 1½ cm wide, sewn together, and then follows a length of single thong, decreasing in width from 1.3 cm to a quite thin end, 8.2 m long. Thus the total length of the whip is 9½ m. The thick, rear end of the lash may also be formed by laying a number of wide thongs over each other and sewing them together, or of a broad thong rolled together and

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