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TIIK POINT BARROW ESKIMO. 



and finish with half a round. Instead of taking the end of the eighth 

 round down to the preceding transverse strand only, he has brought it 

 down to the heel bar, which brings the ninth round to the left, following 

 the even rounds, and coming to the end of the hind bar, the tenth to the 

 right end of the bar, so that it is the eleventh which makes the first 

 transverse turn at the top. The pattern is the same as in the point 

 nettings. The right shoe has 25, 24, and 19 strands in the three sets 

 respectively, and the left, 25, 25, and 19. The toe nettings are put on 

 in the same way, the first round going to the middle becket at the toe, 

 and crossing to the first becket on the right hand, the second going to 

 the first becket on the left hand and crossing on the right to the first 

 round, and the third going to the first round at the toe and crossing 

 on the right to the becket. 



Flo. :tf&amp;gt;;t. Heel netting of snow shoe; (a) tirst round; (6) first, second, and third rounds. 



All the even rounds go to the becket at the toe and cross to the pre 

 ceding even round, and all the odd rounds go to the preceding odd 

 round at the toe and cross to the becket, until the space outside of the 

 first round is filled with longitudinal strands, when they begin to make 

 descending transverse turns across the toe, going from the becket on 

 the left to the corresponding one on the right and thus following the 

 odd rounds. The fourteenth round on the right shoe begins this, the 

 twelfth on the left. This brings the end of the last round to the middle 

 of the toe bar. It is then carried up to the becket at the toe, brought 

 down and up again, and the end is used to fasten these three parts to 

 the netting with equidistant half hitches fourteen on the right shoe 

 and thirteen on the left. The pattern, of course, is the same as before, 

 with 33, 33, and 26 strands on the right shoe, and 31, 31, and 25 on the 

 left, in each set respectively. 



