Eskimo fan hitch

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a method of harnessing sled dogs. See picture at fan hitch.

Quotations

1936

[They preferred] to draw those sleds with large teams of dogs on the Eskimo fan-hitch, not exhaust personnel by the hard man-haul.

1936

But beyond doubt the Eskimo fan hitch is the superior of any other for the open treeless regions of the Arctic.