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beds in prologs or for roofing caches.

I bought a sled & a number of implements among which were footballs Snow shoes, bone breakers or hammer stones as follows [[image]] &c. &c - They make sinew lines like the Esquimo for making gill nets and they had some well made birch bows from 5 to 6 ft long shaped as in sketch These bows [[image]] are strengthened with twisted sinew along the back & the wood is covered with a thin layer of fine birch bark firmly attached to the wood by some means — The arrows are either with long triangular ivory or bone heads [[strikethrough]] or with long flat tipped [[image]] iron heads but the arrows show very poor workmanship & are not feathered at base [[image]] & are from 3 to 3 1/2 ft 

long- bird arrows are made with a conoidal cap head as follows. [[image]] 

The sleds in use here are all of the round bowed style common along this coast. Their umiaks are large sized & very well made with the bow & stern almost the same shape — In addition there were three canoes in the village made by stretching a [[strikethrough]] sealskin cover over a frame much like that of a kyak except that the canoes here are flat on top with the man hole 4 [[strikethrough]] ten [[/strikethrough]] ft long & as broad as the boat & the two ends are the same shape as follows. Double bladed paddles are [[image]] used with these canoes and the latter are just about the size of the St. M. kyaks-

The women here make good

Transcription Notes:
umiaks are traditional boats similar to kayaks.