GRAPHIC ART OF THE ESKIMOS. 



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Fig. 96. 



HUNTEUS AFTER A P.KLVDEER. 



Fig. 97. 

 HUNTER APPROACHING WALRU.S 



escape being' shot by the huuter. The animal is placed in an attitude 

 as if backing", the legs drawn so as to project slightly to the front to 

 denote its inability to progress in that direction. 



The short line in the hand of the middle hunter is an arrow, which 

 is being held toward the one shooting. The figure at the left is quietly 

 obser vii i g the scene, 

 smoking his pipe. 



A clever and 

 cleanly cut illustra- 

 tion is reproduced 

 in fig. 97, represent 



ing a hunter in his baidarka, paddhng toward an ice pan upon which 

 is quietly reposing a walrus. 



All the figures are heavily incised by vertical lines, the ice alone 

 remaining as a hollow outline to indicate its transparent or translucent 

 condition. 



The illustration of the two sides of a piece of ivory, fig. 98, is from 



Utkiawifi, in the 

 Point Barrow re- 

 - gion of Alaska, and 

 is described by Mr. 

 Murdoch^ as being 

 a piece of an old snow-shovel edge with freshly incised figures on both 

 faces, which the artist said represented his own record. "-The figures 

 are all colored with red ocher. On the obverse the figures all stand 

 on a roughly drawn ground line. At the left is a man pointing his 

 rifle at a bear, which stands on its hind legs facing him. Then comes 

 a she-bear walk- 

 ing toward the 

 left, followed by 

 a cub, then two 

 large bears also 

 walking to the 

 left, and a she- 

 bear in the same 

 attitude, fol- 

 lowed by two 

 cubs,onebehind 



the other. This was explained by the artist as follows: 'These are all 

 the bears I have killed. This one alone (pointing to the '' rampant'' one) 

 was bad. All the others were good.' We heard at the time of his giving 

 the death shot to the last bear as it was charging his comrade, who had 

 wounded it with his muzzle-loader. On the reverse the figures are in 

 the same position. The same man points his rifle at a string of throe 

 wolves. His explanation was: 'These are all the wolves I have killed.'" 



Fig. 98. 

 HUNTING SCORE ENGRAVED ON IVORY. 



(AFTER MURDOCH.) 



1 Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1887-'88, 1892, p. 362. 



