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this strop or in between the bone eyelets above. I imagine that the 

 eyelet represented in fig. 95 a shows the larger kind and b and с the 

 smaller of these eyelets. 



2. — Almost midway between the first cross-strap and the man- 

 hole there is the second strap [miaa^^taa) single and divided into two 



Fig. 98. 



Fig. 99. 



Three fragments of kaiak stands. Nualik. (Amdrup coll. 



parts, its outer ends likewise fixed in the deck skin. The two parts 

 are unequally long, so that they can be brought together and 

 tightened by the one being drawn through an eye on the other. 

 At the end of the short part there is a bone eye or ring, through 

 which is passed the end of the long part, and in the end of the 

 latter there is a button or a bone hook (nitsia), sometimes with two 

 or three barbs, Avhich when the strap is tightened can be hooked into 

 one of the cross-straps nearer towards the man-hole. This divided 

 cross-strap is characteristic of the Ammassalik kaiak and unknown in 

 West Greenland. The kaiaker uses it for fixing 

 things, when he has a load on his kaiak, for 

 example, a small seal. (Fig. 100). 



3. — This is a single cross-strap, which is 

 fixed at the gunwale in the sides of the kaiak 

 and has no bone eyelets as a rule. The kaiak 

 stand is fastened to this strap by a bone hook 

 and the throwing stick of the bird-dart is pushed 

 in under it (fig. 101). 



4 — 5. — A pair of short cross-straps, gathered 

 at a short distance from each other by being drawn through the 

 respective holes of two double bone eyelets (fig. 95/) and attached 

 in the deck skin under the kaiak stand. It is probably this pair 

 which Hanserak refers to in his just-cited description. Nowadays 

 there are also kaiaks at Ammassalik, in which these cross-straps, or 

 at any rate one of them, reach right over the deck from the one 

 gunwale to the other. The kaiaker places his knife in under these 

 straps. 



Fig. 100. Eye and 

 button for the foremost 

 cross-strap on the kaiak. 

 Nualik. ^Amdrup coll.). 



