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==Inflated animal skins==
*The Khatnaoo, an inflatable bullock skin used for water travel (may also be called a Dareyi)<ref>Shiraz, Richard [https://in.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/apnahimachal/conversations/messages/1159 kundan from harsi] Apna Himachal Yahoo group July 14, 2005. Retrieved 24 May 2015</ref>. Also known as a mussuck or mussak.
**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=R6mLH_rImHYC&lpg=PT73&ots=i-ES_iUDX0&dq=mussak%20mussuck&pg=PT73 Description of a raft made from a charpoy bed-frame fastened over two mussaks] by Harry Lumsden of the Guides, probably c late 1840s, quoted in ''Soldier Sahibs: The Men Who Made the North-West Frontier'' by Charles Allen Google Books
**C 1857 Illustration: [https://archive.org/stream/cavalryexperien00ouvrgoog#page/n153/mode/2up page 125] ''Cavalry Experiences and Leaves from My Journal'' by Colonel H A Ouvry 1892 Archive.org
**[http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/202213/samuel-bourne-mussucks-for-crossing-the-beas-below-bajoura-english-1866/ Photograph: Mussucks for Crossing the Beas below Bajoura 1866] (North West India), by Samuel Bourne. From an album of photographs. J. Paul Getty Museum.
