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coloured fur, and fringes of pierced teeth, generally those of 

 the fox or wolf. Among the Esquimaux visited by Captain 

 Lyon, the ornaments were all appropriated by the men.* Some 

 of the families are in the habit of tattooing themselves. 



The men hunt and fish. They make the weapons and 

 implements, and prepare the woodwork of the boats. The 

 women-(- are the cooks, prepare the skins, and make the 

 clothes. They also repair the houses, tents, and boats, the 

 men doing only carpenter's work. Though they do not 

 appear to be very harshly treated, still the women have 

 certainly "a hard and almost slavish life of it," although 

 perhaps, after all, not more so than the men. 



The Esquimaux are not altogether without music. They 

 have a kind of drum, and sing both alone and in chorus. 

 They are acquainted with several kinds of games, j" both of 

 strength and skill, and are fond of dances, which are often 

 very indecent. One of their games resembled our cat's- 

 cradle, and Kane saw the children in Smith's Sound play- 

 ing hockey on the ice. The Esquimaux have also a great 

 natural ability for drawing. In many cases they have made 

 rude maps for our officers, which have turned out to be 

 substantially correct. Many of their bone implements are 

 covered with sketches. Figs. 221 to 223 represent three bone 

 drill-bows presented to the Ashmolean Museum by Captain 

 Beechey, and which I presume to be some of those which he 

 obtained in Hotham Inlet, Kotzebue Sound, and described 

 in his Voyage to the Pacific. In fig. 223 we see yourts, or 

 winter-houses, in two cases, with dogs standing on them ; men 

 armed with bows and arrows, and others dragging seals home 

 over the ice, and one man about to spear a reindeer with a 

 movable-headed harpoon. In fig. 222 are reindeer, geese, a 

 baidar, or flat-bottomed boat, a tent, round which various 



* Lyon's Journal, p. 314. J Egede, 1. c. p. 162. 



t Crantz, p. 164. Hall, 1. c. vol. ii. p. 316. 



