CATALOGUE OF THE MECHANICAL, ENGINEERING COLLECTION. 103 



Model of American Indian Travois. (Scale 1 : 6.) Made in the Museum. 



Long saplings are attached at the butt ends to a strap across the 

 horse's breast and by thongs to the girth ; the thin ends drag u,pon the 

 ground often 6 or 8 feet. Forage, fuel, game, and oftentimes persons 

 Avere conveyed from place to place by traveaux. 



Cat. No. 181,254 U.S.N.M. 



Model of Primitive Sledge. (Scale about 1 : 6.) Made in the Museum. 



The American colonists fashioned the sledge from the forked limb 

 of a tree. Aborigines and early settlers also used the forked limb, a 

 convenient shape provided by nature, for tongues and thills of sledges 

 and carts. Cat. No. 181,252 U.S.N.M. 



FIG. 46. AMERICAN INDIAN THAVOIS. 



Model of Sledge of Split Logs. (Scale 1:6.) Made in the Museum. 



This form of sledge was used by the American colonists of the 

 seventeenth century for carrying loads too heavy for the backs of 

 man or beast. It is a crude sledge made with primitive tools and is 

 known as the " buck " in eastern Pennsylvania. 



Cat. No. 181,253 U.S.N.M. 



Model of Colonial Sleigh, 1783. (Scale 1 : 6.) Made in the Museum. 



This form of sleigh was used by the American colonists in the 

 eighteenth century. Owing to the bad roads, four horses were fre- 

 quently attached to the sleigh, especially when long journeys were 

 attempted. It has strongly built solid runners with body braced by 

 iron rods. Cat. No. 181,256 U.S.N.M. 



Model of Egyptian Sledge and Rollers. Made in the Museum. (Modeled 

 After Mural Painting, Temple of Luxor, Thebes.) 



The sledge was used in ancient Egypt on funeral occasions and for 

 many other purposes. Cat. No. 181,255 U.S.N.M. 



