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barbs; none of them have the little barb on the outer edge 

 towards the middle which is characteristic of the North East 

 Greenland type. Three of them have two holes quite close to 

 one another in the middle where the body expands; most of 

 them have only one hole here. In one of them the hole lies 

 near the base. Cf. inv. Amd. 20, 



North West Greenland. 



Inv. Pfaff. Stockholm Riksmuseum. 



Fig. 85. Sledge from North East Greenland, consisting of 

 two very heavy, crudely worked runners, which are connected 

 with six cross-pieces. It is uncertain in which order these 

 pieces lay on the runners, to which they have only temporarily 

 been fastened with nails. It is likewise uncertain whether the 

 two poles which are erected at the rear of the sledge as up- 

 rights are really to be considered as such. 



Along the upper part of each runner there are II large 

 square holes for the rawhide lashings with which the cross-pieces 

 were secured to them. In one of the holes in the cross-pieces 

 a bit of a hide thong is still sticking. The broadest of the 

 cross-pieces has a hole bored in it in the middle close to one 

 of its side edges; this piece then probably was fixed a Uttle 

 behind the middle of the sledge, or right in the rear, as the 

 said hole was intended to receive one end of the line or lines 

 with which the baggage of the sledge is generally lashed. At 

 the end of each cross-piece there are one or two pairs of 

 holes, connected in pairs with grooves for the lashing. In the 

 side of each runner^ towards the front, and a little below the 

 row of square holes, there is a large round hole for fastening 

 the strong common cross-line of raw-hide to which the single 

 traces for each dog are fixed. 



Under the right runner there still adheres a little fragment 

 of a bone shoe, riveted to the under side of the runner with 

 tree-nails. 



The length of the sledge is 2 m 8 cm. The height of the 



