gg2 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1895. 



taqi'mrii, ami'daduk' ajlaluk', a'quia'miik piqu'a ajlaluk'; 



rtv.. weasel one, land otter caught one: 



knqu'iuaunmmuk' ajlaluk', tun'duniuk tiVguqli'ugu' melu'ganuk', 



„-olf one, deer (I) killed two, 



pe'luk pinai'nnnk, iiu'unk pit'qimi', maklak'innk pit'quni', 



Leaver three porcupine (I) canght none, seal (T) caught none, 



atshi'auamuk' pit'quni', uaqi'lamnk' pit'qiiui', tagu'^ainnk' 



walrus (I) caught none, fox (I) caught none, bear 



j)it'quiii'. 



(I) caught none. 



In the collection from Point Barrow is one example, of wliicli an 

 illustration is here reproduced in fig. 102. It is a piece of the edge of 

 an old snow shovel, and measures 4.2 inches long, with a loop of thong 

 at the upper edge to admit of suspension. It is covered on both sides 

 with freshly incised figures, colored with red ocher, and is described 

 by Mr. Murdoch as follows:^ 



The obverse, is bordered with a single narrow line. At the left is a man standing 

 with arms outstretched, supporting himself by two slender staffs as long as ho is. 

 In the middle are three rude figures of tents, very high and slender. At the right 

 is a hornless reindeer heading to the left, with a man standing ou its back with 



Fig. 103. 



HUNTING SCORE ENGRAVED ON IVOBY. POINT BARROW. (AFTER MURDOCH.) 



his legs straddled apart and his arms uplifted. Ou the reverse there is no border, 

 but a single dog and a man who supports himself with a long staff are dragging an 

 empty rail sledge toward the left. 

 I find no mention of the use of any such scores among the eastern Eskimo. * '* * 



The engraving represented in fig. 103 is from a flat piece of the out- 

 side of a walrus tusk 9.7 inches long and 1.8 wide at the broader end. 

 The engravings are very crude, when compared with some of the work 

 from the west coast of Alaska. The specimen is one of the four pieces 

 brought back from Point Barrow by Mr. Murdoch, and the following is 

 his description .2 



The figures are incised on one face only and colored with red ocher. The face is 

 divided lengthwise into two panels by a horizontal line. In the upiier panel, at the 

 left, is a man facing to the right and pointing a gun at a line of three standing deer, 

 facing toward the left. Two are bucks and one a doe. Then come two bucks, rep- 

 resented without legs, as if swimming in the water, followed by a rude ligure of a 

 man in a kaiak. Below the line at the left is an umiak with five men and then 

 a row of twelve conventionalized whales' tails, of which all but the first, second, 

 and iifth are joined to the horizontal line by a short straight line. The record may 

 be freely translated as follows: "I went out with my gun and killed three large 



'Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1887-88, 1892, pp. 363, 364, fig. 363. 

 sidem, p. 362, 363. 



