Identifier: labradorcountryp02gren (find matches)
Title: Labrador, the country and the people
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir, 1865-1940
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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etsor motor coats, and picked skins for such purposes shouldwell repay exportation; two dollars apiece is the presentlocal price for Labrador deer skins. Some of our deer havesnow-white skins in winter, and the hair is as thick as acocoanut fibre mat. Moccasins manufactured from the thinner deer skins makethe warmest foot-gear known. The heavier stag skins fur-nish admirable light, soft, flexible over-clothes. They areperfectly wind proof, and, when dressed for use, fetch fiftycents to one dollar per pound weight. Stretched, undressed,they are sold by the pound as parchment; this, cut intostrips, is rolled up, and sold as babbage, out of which allthe fillings for snow-shoes are made. Of this, also, are madethe lashings for our sledges and the harness for our dogs.The tough thongs show remarkable elastic strength asthey feel the jarring and jolting of the rough trails. Thevery tendons that are useless as food are amongst our mostvaluable acquisitions, affording our women all the sewing
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o BEINBEER FOR LABRADOR 255 material they need for making boots, skin-boats (or kayaks),and clothing. These animal tendons are taken and dried,and fetch from ten to fifty cents for each animal. Theystrip easily into single fibres, and these separate threadsform a strong sewing material, which resists water, and yet,when used in boots intended to be water-tight, swells upas soon as the boots are immersed in moisture. In thisway leakage through the needle holes is prevented. Thetendons do not rot easily, nor do they tear the skin sub-stances, for they contract and expand with that material.Even the horns and hoofs are valuable, and furnish manyof the household essentials of the natives. Some of thesevarious manufactured products can be exported to theEuropean markets. Reindeer may thus largely increase theearning capacity of any region, by converting its unsalablematerial into valuable products. The fresh rich milk ofthe does in the summer has also supphed us with what isa vital necessi

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