Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 165
d with us a great num-ber of glovers needles, and these we traded for theiron ones, which to us were great curiosities. Thewomen do some wonderfully neat sewing with theseneedles, considering the nature of the implementsand the coarse thread of reindeer sinew whichthey use. This sinew is stripped… … ESKIMO BOYS PLAYING SAND-BAG BALL. cutting away at it. It would probably have takenhim two years to cut out this piece, and two moreto fashion the knife into shape and usefulness. The file which he had made into a cold-chiselwas such a proof of labor and patience that it wasa great curiosity to me,…
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