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08/03/2007
How to build an inuit dog sled
It's always interesting to check the stats for this site to see where people are coming from and in the last day or so someone came to Villageblog via a search engine and the following keywords; inuit dog sled how built.
Amusingly they would have been directed to this page with a story about how someone once made an inuit dog sled. It's such a good story I'll post it again.
[I was listening to a talk] by a guy called Wade Davis who was hunting around the tip of Baffin Island and met an individual (whose name wasn't clear in the recording) who told a story about his grandfather who refused to go into one of the Inuit settlements;
"His family took away his tools and implements, hoping that it would oblige him to go into the settlement. Did it work? No. He simply stepped out into the arctic night and in the darkness, pulled down his trousers and defecated into his hand. As the faeces froze he shaped it into a blade. He put a spray of saliva along the edge and as the shit-knife took form he butchered a dog. He skinned the dog with it and made a harness, he took the rib cage of the dog and made a sled and harnessing the sled to an adjacent dog he took off over the iceflows"
I wonder if they decided to use this technique or not?
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