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Auother uian is seen carrying a snowshoe-like object, probably of rein- 

 deer or deer, to the summit of the house roof to dry. Tlie pole, with 

 crosspiece, situated near the head of the ladder, is a votive offering 

 erected there by one of the inmates. 



No. 13 is a sledge, upon which is seated the driver using his whip. 

 The dog is urged forward, and another native, one of the three, No. 14, 

 who had been oft' trading for skins, is hailing a boat seen coming to 

 the shore with the gunwale parallel therewith, pre- 

 senting another good instance of foreshortening of 

 ■k the object. The man behind the sledge is walking 

 Fis 68. along with his staff elevated. The inverted ligure 



MENDING NET. abovc sccms to belong to a series attempted on 



that side of the panel of the bow drill, as another figure, having no 

 apparent connection with the completed record, occurs also at a point 

 over the three wading boatmen following the baidarka, No. 10, which 

 is being pushed ashore. No. 17 is also in shallow water and appears to 

 start away as the oarsmen are seated within with their arms extended 

 grasping the paddle. 



An interesting and cleverly drawn native sketch of a man mending 

 a seine net is shown in fig. 08. The attitude is lifelike, while in one 

 hand is portrayed a short line denoting the shuttle. 



A man splitting wood is shown in the accompanying illustration, 

 fig. 09. He has a heavy mallet or some other like utensil raised above 

 his head, and in the act of driving wedges to split a piece of wood. 



Plate 59, tig. 1, represents an old stained specimen of ivory from 

 Norton Sound. The engravings upon this are rather deep, and are 

 tilled with deep brown coloring matter. The semicircular objects to 

 the right of the middle, some being shown in rather an angular form 

 toward the left of the middle, represent habitations. These characters 

 appear in a more conventionalized forn) and for decorative purposes in 

 plate 24, tig. 5. 



The chief interest attached to this record is in the variety of forms 

 of habitations, thus enabling one to perceive the differences in the 

 variants placed in consecutive order. The two 

 extremes are very unlike, and would scarcely be 

 recognized as portraying a similar idea, but for the 

 intervening examples showing the evolution in the - 

 execution of form. ^ig- 69. 



The two elongated tigures to the right of the habi- ^^i^itting wood. 

 tations denote invited kaiaks upon racks for drying. The human fig- 

 ures, one of whom is shown seated, represent natives supplicating a 

 shaman for aid. The tigure has both arms extended, as in making the 

 gesture for supplication, while the shaman, standing at the left, has his 

 arms and hands uplifted, as in the gesture illustrated in several figures, 

 relating to shamauistic ceremonials, termed by the natives as " agitating 



