34fi THE POINT HARROW ESKIMO. 



whore it is finished oft by knotting the end round the lust &quot; stop.&quot; 

 The stops are made, apparently, by a separate pieee 011 the right shoe. 

 The lacing on the heed bar is also double or triple, but the last part, 

 which is wound round the others, is knotted into each hole as on the 

 rim. The lacings on the rim of the heel space are knotted with a single 

 knot round each end of the extra bar. 



In describing the nettings it will always be understood that the upper 

 surface of the shoe is toward the workman, with the point upward, if 

 describing the heel nettings, and viee versa for the toe. To begin with 

 the heel netting, which is the simpler: This is in two parts, one 

 from the heel bar to the extra bar (heel netting proper) and one from 

 the latter to the point (point netting). The netting is invariably 

 fastened to the lacing by passing the end through the becket from 

 above and bringing it back over itself, [n making the point netting 

 the end of the babiche is knotted round the bar at the right-hand 

 lower corner with a single knot. The other end goes up to the lacing 

 at the point and comes down to the left-hand lower corner, where it is 



hitched round the bar, as in Fig. 351, 

 then goes up to the lowest becket on 

 * ne l^ s &amp;lt;l e &amp;lt; crosses to the corre 

 sponding one on the right, and comes 

 down and is hitched as before round 

 the bar inside of the starting point. 



Fw. :i51. Kuut iu snowshoe. .. . 



Ihis makes a series ot strands round 



the outside of the space, two running obliquely from right to left, a 

 long one on the right side and a short one on the left side; two similar 

 strands from left to right, the long one on the left and the short one 

 on the right, and one transverse strand at the base of the triangle 

 (see diagram, Pig. 352). The next round goes up to the first becket at 

 the, top on the left hand, crosses to the corresponding one on the 

 right, and then makes the same strands as the first round, running 

 parallel to them and about half an inch nearer the center of the space, 

 (see diagram, Fig. 3526). Kaeh successive round follows the last, com 

 ing each time about | inch nearer the center, till the space is all filled 

 in, which brings the end of the last round to the middle of the bar, 

 round which it is knotted with a single knot. This makes three sets 

 of strands, two obliquely longitudinal, one set from right to left and 

 one, from left to right, and one transverse, all of each set parallel and 

 equidistant, or nearly so, and each interwoven alternately over and 

 under each successive strand it meets. 



The right shoe has fourteen longitudinal strands in each set and 

 thirteen transverse; the left, one less in each set. On the left shoe the 

 end is carried up from the last knot to the lacing at the point, and then 

 conies back to the bar, fastening the other part to the netting with six 

 equidistant half-hitches. The heel netting proper is put on in a slightly 



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