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sleds commonly have the runners unshod, although sometimes strips of 
bone are used for that purpose. ! 
Figure 62 illustrates a sled from Plover bay, Siberia, which is the 
style used on St Lawrence island and the adjacent Siberian coast. It 
is modeled after those used by the Chukchi of eastern Siberia. The 
runners are made from pieces of driftwood; they are suboval in cross 
section, about 2 inches wide by 14 thick, and taper toward the front. 
To the front ends of the runners is lashed an overlapping piece of wood 
of the same width and about half an inch thick, which extends down 
the under side of the runner and is curved up over the back, reaching 
midway to the rear of the sled, where it is lashed to the end of a flat 
piece of wood which serves as the rail. Bowed pieces of reindeer 
horn are fixed in the tops of the runners, to which they are fastened by 
whalebone or rawhide lashings. Two flattened sticks extend from the 
top of the first bow to a little beyond the last one, to form a resting 
place for the bed of the sled and to which it is lashed. Crosspieces 
are then lashed to these sticks. On each side a brace is formed by a 
rod of wood, which is lashed against the side of the stringer and to the 
Fic. 62 —Sled nsed on the Siberian shore of Bering strait. 
runner 15 inches in front of the rear end and extending obliquely for- 
ward under the bed. At the rear end a bow of wood is lashed to the 
last deerhorn bow under the bottom, forming a curve about 10 inches 
high above the bed; from each side of this, near the top, another bow 
extends forward and downward to the base of the second deerhorn 
bow, where it is firmly lashed. ‘To serve as a shoe, a thin, flat piece of 
wood is fastened to the lower side of each runner by rawhide lashings 
passed through the runner and through holes in the shoe, which are 
countersunk, so that the friction against the surface of the snow or 
rocks shall not cut the cord. The load is fastened on these sleds with 
rawhide cords, and the attachment for hauling is made to the forward 
part of the runners and the first crosspiece. 
This form of sled is used with dogs by the Eskimo and sedentary 
Chukchi of the Asiatic coast, and with reindeer by the reindeer-using 
Chukchi of that region. 
Figure 1, plate LXxvi, represents another style of sled, from St 
Lawrence island, used for transporting to the village the meat and blub- 
ber from the place where the game is killed. It is about 15 inches in 
length and the same in width, and has two stout, walrus-tusk run- 
ners about 15 inches long, an ineh and a half deep, and two-thirds of an 
