GRAPHIC ART OF THE ESKIMOS. 863 



depending therefrom suggests an attempt at denoting some form of 

 animal, whicli seems obscured by the square structure attached to the 

 opposite line. A little farther to the left is the figure of a man with 

 arms outstretched, and beyond this the body of a walrus with huge 

 tusks. On the opposite side of the record, at the extreme right, is 

 portrayed a rock projecting from the sea, upon which 

 are resting four seals. A short distance beyond these «fff 



is seen an umiak, and toward the left a whale, from 



above the head of which is indicated by simple little '"' 



PICKING RERUIKS. 



triangular dots an explosion of spray, as is shown in 

 the figure upon the oi)posite side of the drill bow. This is of peculiar 

 interest, and indicates either inexperience in i)ortraiture on the i^art of 

 the native artist or a high degree in conventionalizing. The remaining 

 figures can be readily determined and need no further interpretation. 

 Upon the narrow convex edge of the bow in the center of the entire 

 record is the outline of another whale with the 

 triangular dots for spray being arranged a little 

 nearer together so as to approach more nearly the 

 usual method of indicating si)ray or water thrown 

 ^^s''^- from the blowholes. To the right of this is a wal- 



CUTTING UP A WALBUS. ^^^^ ^^^^^ g^^ ^^^j^^ ^^.j^ ^.^ ^^^ j^^^ j^ ^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ 



its young on its back, and other characters readily determinable by the 

 reader without further explanation. The bottom of the bow bears a 

 continuous seizes for more than half of its entire length of conventional- 

 ized seal heads, indicating ornamentation rather than an attemj^t at a 

 historical record. 



Fig. 70 represents a native picking berries. This illustration is of 

 peculiar interest, as the nucleated circles ujion the short leaved stems 

 denote the fruit. The same figure with the blossom, in which the three 

 short radiating lines are added to denote the flower, is shown on plate 

 46 in the powder measure. Upon this too are the short lines running- 

 downward from the ring on the measure, to which are attached three 

 berries, i. e., three nucleated circles. 



The engraving rej)resented in fig. 71 is selected from a series of charac- 



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Fig. 72. Fig. 73. 



CUTTING UP REIXDEER. CUTTING UP REINDEER. 



ters on an ivory drill, locality unknown. The horizontal body represents 

 a walrus, lying on its back, being cut up by the two men, the one at the 

 left hand using a cleaver, while his companion is otherwise engaged at 

 the head of the animal. The artistic execution, apparent, is extraordi- 

 narily good ; the lines being deep single creases, indicating the engraver 

 to have been thoroughly experienced in the use of the graver. 



