istc 



vshing passes thi 

 The gunwales ai 

 stem, in both ca 



d the hist 



as to form a h.w n 

 only 5 or inches. 



Between the pos 

 pair of long ribs at each end are 

 two pairs of short ribs running 

 only from the gunwale to the in- 

 side streak. The frame is still 

 further strengthened by an out- 

 side streak between the bilge 

 streak and the inside streak, and 

 Nikawaalu's canoe had an extra 

 Streak of "half-round" willow out- 

 side of the latter. The thwarts rest , 

 by whalebone lashings. The Mock 

 a high seat for the steersman. ( 'ran 

 that the frame of the Greenland iimi 

 timlx^rs, lacking ojdy the two outsi 



The cover is made of the skins of 

 hide is often used ami sometimes the skin of the polar li.'ar. which 

 makes a heaiitifully white cover, but the skin of the bearduil seal is 

 preferred, the people from Toint Barrow sometimes making Journeys 

 to Waiuwright Inlet in search of such skins, which are dressed with 

 their oil in them in the manner already referred to. We were informed 

 that six of these skins were reipiired to cover one umiak. They are i)ut 

 together in the same way as the skins for the kaiak and sewed with the 

 same seam. The edges of th<^ covei' are stretched over the gunwale, 

 and laced to the inside streak with a stout thong, which passes through 

 holes in the edge of the covi«-. At stem and stern the cover is laced 

 with a separate thong to a stout transverse lashing of thong running 

 from gunwale to gunwale close to the edge of the posthead. ^ 



iig liil';.- sMcaks tcj ^I. 



iiside streak am 

 or head of flic stern-pi 

 it/.-s'.lescriiitioiiau.ld 

 iak c.msists of essentia 

 de streaks. 



the same 



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