350 



THE POINT BARROW ESKIMO. 



inches long and 11 broad. The two shoes are not perceptibly different 

 in shape. The lacing-, which is of sinew braid, is put on in the same way 

 as on the preceding pair, except that it is fastened directly into the 

 holes on the toe bars. The whole of the heel netting is in one piece, and 

 made precisely in the same way as the point nettings of the first pair, 

 the end being carried up the middle to the point of the heel and brought 

 down again to the bar as on the toe nettings, but fastened with marl 

 ing hitches. The number of strands is the same in each shoe, twenty- 

 three in each set. The toe nettings follow quite regularly the pattern 

 ofthe preceding pair. 



The shoes are not quite the same size, as the 

 right lias 35, 35, and 28 strands, and the left 33, 

 33, and 25, in each set respectively. There is no 

 regular rule about the number of strands in any 

 part of the netting, the object being simply to 

 make the meshes always aboiit the same size. 

 The foot netting is made of stout and very white 

 thong from the bearded seal. These shoes have 

 no strings. 



No. 89914 [1738j is a pair of rather small shoes 

 from Utkiavwln, one of which is shown in Fig. 

 354. They are rights and lefts, and are 42 inches 

 long by 10 broad. The frame is wholly of oak, 

 and differs from the type only in having no extra 

 hind bar, and having the heel and toe bars about 

 equal in length. The points are fastened together 

 with a treenail, as well as with a whalebone stitch. 

 The heel-nettings are put on with perfect regu 

 larity, as on the pair last described, but the toe- 

 nettings, though they start in the usual way, do 

 not follow any regular rule of sucession, the 

 rounds being put on sometimes inside and some 

 times outside of the preceding, till the whole 

 space is filled. The foot-nettings are somewhat 

 clumsily made, especially on the right shoe, which 

 appears to have been broken in several places, 

 and &quot;cobbled&quot; by an unskillful workman. There 

 are only five transverse strands which are double 

 on the left shoe, and the longitudinal strands 

 are not whipped to these, but interwoven, and 

 each pair twisted together between the trans 

 verse strands. There is no wattling back of the toe hole, and one pair 

 of longitudinal strands at the side of the latter is not doubled on the 

 left shoe. The strings are put on as on the type except that the 

 ends are knotted instead of being spliced. This pair of shoes was 



FIG. 354. Small .snowshoe. 



