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thick moss-covered cedar-tree that has been lying on the ground for a 
long time. When | it has been found, oneand a half fathom-lengths are 
split off. || Each piece is two spans wide | and one finger-width thick. | 
I do not know how the edges are fitted together. | They are well 
adzed ... Then | he takes a long bone drill, and he takes two 
pieces of the boards || and lays them side by side. He drills near the 
end in a slanting direction | through the edges of the two split 
boards, so that the point of the drill comes through | on the other side 
of the other board, in this manner.!. . . When | this is done, he 
takes another (board) and places it alongside of the last one, and | he 
drills it in the same way, and sews it together as he sewed || the first 
one; and he only stops adding to it when it is two fathoms | wide. 
Then he takes a split board half | a finger-width thick and four | 
finger-widths wide. Its length is equal | to the width of the boards 
that have been sewed together. He places it on top || of one end of 
the sewed boards. He takes his | drill and drills through it one 
finger-width | from the edge of the piece of wood that forms now the 
straight | crosspiece of the short boards that have been sewed 
together. He drills straight | through, and at a distance of three 
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sElemé qa‘s splx‘idxa ‘nemdEnas ‘wadzEwasé 1axEns q!wa- 
qhwax'ts!ana‘yéx giigitEla lax Awaxatyasa la ‘nemenxaléda 
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1 Here the method of sewing is described in detail. See figure on p. 93. 
