854 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1895. 



doubt belong to him, and form part of the village indicated by the 

 several habitations and storehouses. 



No. 3 is a dome-shaped winter habitation, about which two people are 

 occupied. No. 4 is another granary or food repository, while No. 5 

 represents a second house upon which two people are talking very 

 animatedly. The one at the right seems to be requesting, or suppli- 

 cating, both hands being directed upward toward the one spoken to. 



No. G is the storage place for food and other articles, while in No. 7 

 we find another dome- shaped winter house with the inmates in view. 

 A third i^erson is standing before the door, while under the accompany- 

 ing scaffold a fourth individual is visible. 



No. represents a winter house, and smoke is rising from the place 

 where the smoke hole is usually found. The smoke looks straight and 

 rigid, resembling a tree. The two people seem to be occupied in carry- 

 ing something. The illustration at No. 10 is a scaffold for the safe loca- 

 tion of food, and Nos. 11, 13, and 14 are similar structures, whereas No. 

 12 is a warehouse, probably of a white trader. No. 15 is a winter house, 

 though apparently deserted. 



The specimen represented in plate Gl is a pipe bearing delicate and 

 elaborate etchings of a variet}^ of subjects. The object is made of wal- 

 rus ivory, measuring 13^ inches in length, If inches in height near the 

 insertion of the bowl, and slightly less than 1 inch in transverse diame- 

 ter at the same point. The perforation at the mouthpiece is one-eighth 

 of an inch m diameter. 



The bowl is of block tin, while the top of the bowl is lined with a thin 

 sheet of perforated, ornamented brass. The caliber of the bowl is only 

 one-fourth of an inch in diameter, and seems to have been made in 

 imitation of a Chinese pipe bowl and possibly for the same style of 

 smoking. 



The pipes, like others of like form from the same locality, at St. 

 Michaers[?], have been said to have been made for sale to traders. 

 That may be, and does not in the least impair the interest and value 

 of the pictographic records portrayed upon the several sides. Though 

 the pipes may be shaped, to a limited extent, in imitation of foreign 

 shapes, yet the pictography remains Eskimo, made by an Eskimo, and 

 to portray P^skimo scenes and avocations. 



The upper figure of the pipe presents the characters on the left side, 

 and beginning at the extreme left is observed a vertical ornamental 

 bar or border, similar to those drawn along the lower half of the pipe 

 stem, though in the latter space they are arranged diagonally, and 

 made to separate ornaments consisting of concentric rings, ornaments 

 to which special reference is made elsewhere. 



The first group consists of two persons engaged in twisting a cord, 

 though the suggestion has been made that they appear to be engaged 

 in a pastime which consists in making string figures, similar to the 

 American boy's "cat's cradle," etc. The figure next to the right repre- 

 sents the end view of a building having two rooms, in the larger of 



