346 THE POINT BARROW ESKIMO. 
where it is finished off by knotting the end round the last ‘“ stop.” 
The stops are made, apparently, by a separate piece on the right shoe. 
The lacing on the heel bar is also double or triple, but the last part, 
which is wound round the others, is knotted into each hole as on the 
rim. The lacings on the rim of the heel space are knotted with a single 
knot round each end of the extra bar. 
In deseribing the nettings it will always be understood thatthe upper 
surface of the shoe is toward the workman, with the point upward, if 
describing the heel nettings, and vice versa for the toe. To begin with 
the heel netting, which is the simpler: This is in two parts, one 
from the heel bar to the extra bar (heel netting proper) and one from 
the latter to the point (point netting). The netting is invariably 
fastened to the lacing by passing the end through the becket from 
above and bringing it back over itself. In making the point netting 
the end of the babiche is knotted round the bar at the right-hand 
lower corner with a single knot. The other end goes up to the lacing 
at the point and comes down to the left-hand lower corner, where it is 
hitched round the bar, as in Fig. 351, 
Ve: / then goes up to the lowest becket on 
the left side, crosses to the corre- 
sponding one on the right, and comes 
3 down and is hitched as before round 
the bar inside of the starting point. 
This makes a series of strands round 
the outside of the space, two running obliquely from right to left, a 
long one on the right side and a short one on the left side; two similar 
strands from left to right, the long one on the left and the short one 
on the right, and one transverse strand at the base of the triangle 
(see diagram, Fig. 352a). The next round goes up to the first becket at 
the top on the left hand, crosses to the corresponding one on the 
right, and then makes the same strands as the first round, running 
parallel to them and about half an inch nearer the center of the space 
(see diagram, Fig. 352). Each successive round follows the last, com- 
ing each time about $ inch nearer the center, till the space is all filled 
in, which brings the end of the last round to the middle of the bar, 
round whieh it is knotted with a single knot. This makes three sets 
of strands, two obliquely longitudinal, one set from right to left and 
one from left to right, and one transverse, all of each set parallel and 
equidistant, or nearly so, and each interwoven alternately over and 
under each successive strand it meets. 
The right shoe has fourteen longitudinal strands in each set and 
thirteen transverse; the left, one less in each set. On the left shoe the 
end is carried up from the last knot to the lacing at the point, and then 
comes back to the bar, fastening the other part to the netting with six 
equidistant half-hitches. The heel netting proper is put on in a slightly 
Fig. 351.—Knot in snowshoe. 
