Mer om vegaexpeditionen
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegaexpeditionen
Här finns expeditionsledarens hela reseskildring som E-bok, där kan det finnas något intressant.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/24365/24 ... 4365-h.htm
Särskilt kapitel II handlar om Samoyedfolket med rubrikerna:
CHAPTER II.
Departure from Maosoe—Gooseland—State of the Ice—The Vessels of the Expedition assemble at Chabarova—The Samoyed town there—The Church—Russians and Samoyeds—Visit to Chabarova in 1875—Purchase of Samoyed Idols—Dress and dwellings of the Samoyeds—Comparison of the Polar Races—Sacrificial Places and Samoyed Grave on Waygats Island visited—Former accounts of the Samoyeds—Their place in Ethnography.
På sidan 83-84 står det om deras hundar:
"The neighbourhood of the tents swarmed with small black or white long-haired dogs, with pointed nose and pointed ears They are used exclusively for tending the herds of reindeer, and appear to be of the same race as the "renvallhund," the reindeer dog. At several places on the coast of the White Sea, however, dogs are also employed as beasts of draught, but according to information which I procured before my departure for [pg 84] Spitzbergen in 1872—it was then under discussion whether dogs should be used during the projected ice journey—these are of a different race, larger and stronger than the Lapp or Samoyed dogs proper."
Just denna passage är särskilt intressant också huruvida det rör sig om draghundar eller inte. Dessa verkar vara Samoyedfolkets vallhundar och inte specifikt draghundar. Slädhundar beskrivs som större. Nordenskiöld talar om i ett annat avsnitt av boken att renar verkar vara det primära dragdjuret.
Nordenskiöld hävdar också att hundarnas pälsar blir kläder också.
Mer om slädhundar:
Along with the dwellings of the Russians, the tents of the natives, or, as the Russians call them, "the Asiatics," are often to be met with. They have the same shape as the Lapp "kota." The Samoyed tent is commonly covered with reindeer skins, the Ostyak tent with birch bark. In the neighbourhood of the tent there are always large numbers of dogs, which during winter are employed for general carrying purposes, and in summer for towing boats up the river—a means of water transport which greatly astonished the Norwegian sailors with whom I travelled up the river in 1875. To see people travelling in a boat drawn by dogs appeared to them more remarkable than the Kremlin of Moscow, or the bells of Kiev. For such a journey a sufficient number of dogs are harnessed to a long line, one end of which is fastened to the stem of the boat. The dogs then go along the level bank, where they make actual footpaths. The boat being of light draught is kept afloat at a sufficient distance from land partly by means of the rudder which is managed by a person sitting in the stern of the boat, and partly by poling from the fore. Small boats are often hollowed out of a single tree-stem, and may notwithstanding, thanks to the size which some of the pines attain in those [pg 392] regions, be very roomy, and of a very beautiful shape. The dogs strongly resemble the Eskimo dogs in Greenland, which are also used as draught animals.
Dessa hunder är alltså inte som samojedhundar utan mer som grönlandshundar.
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