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 tollow quite regularly the pattern 
ofthe preceding pair. 
The shoes are not quite the same size, as the 
right has 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 about 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 (1738, is a pair of rather small shoes 
from Utkiavwit, one of which is shown in Fig. 
304, 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 extrz 
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 “cobbled” 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 
Fia. 354.—Small snowshoe. 
