GRAPHIC ART OF THE ESKIMOS. 8G9 



from which he intends to make a bow; tlie other liancl holding an adz 

 with wliich the greater part of tlie superfinon.s material is removed ere 

 beginning- the final cuts and scrapings to produce the ultimate form on 

 surface. 



The illustration of two meu wrestling is reproduced in fig. 83 from 

 the pipestems shown in plate 02. The attitude of 

 the men is realistic, and shows the clinch in a " catch- J|» 



as-catch-can" contest. Fm^ 



This, fig. 84, is also reproduced from the same pro- ' 'Hi 

 lific source, the pipestem, shown in plate 61. The '^'^^' 



. , , \ , . , , , NATIVES WRESTLING. 



man at the right has kicked the ball into the air, 



while his companion is ready to catch it, as is shown by the outstretched 



hands. 



Two men engaged in gambling are shown in fig. So. That they are 

 sitting close together is indicated not only by their apparent proximity 

 but furthermore by the representation of the foot of one man extending 

 beyond the back of his vis-a-vis. 



Whether the game is played with cards, with 

 r J^ sticks, or some other materials, is not determi- 



i__ nable. 



^'"■^^' The illustration in fig. 8(> is not of uncommon 



FOOTBALL KICKED BY NATI\T:. • -, « 



occurrence in records of dances, those so indi- 

 cated being the observers and not the participants in the ceremonials. 

 The pipe represented in the native drawing is the Siberian pattern, an 

 Eskimo reproduction of the general type being shown in plates 61 and 

 62, in which the bowl is a vertical stem with a broad, rather flaring top 

 with but a narrow and deep perforation, resembling 

 the Cliinese pattern in respect to the small quantity of t-'^ 



tobacco which the smoker can consume at one fillina-. \%c~W i . 



The effect is attained, however, as Mr. Murdoch in- rig.85. 



forms me ''that the smoker will take a deep inhalation 

 of smoke — and vile smoke it is, generally — retaining it for a considera- 

 ble time until he is compelled to take breath, when another similar 

 inhalation of sm(»ke is taken. This is repeated until the small charge 

 of tobacco is consumed. The result is a most violent fit of coughing, 



becoming spasmodic and of such apparent- 

 ly painful character as to lead one to believe 

 , that the poor victim is going to die at once." 

 Fig. 86. Many of the Indian tribes practice like 



NATIVE SMOKING PIPE. inhalatlous of smoke, the usual combina- 



tion among the Dakota tribes consisting of 

 various kinds of purchased tobacco mixed in varying degrees with the 

 inner red bark of the red osier Gornus stolonifera, or the leaves of TJva 

 Ursi, found along the elevated lands of the upper Missouri and Yellow- 

 stone rivers. 

 The bark or the leaves are chopped up finely in the proportion, 



