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incised aud blackened; the back ones are flat, with the last three 

 features indicated as before. At the end is a rude figure of a bear, 

 heading toward the right, with the ears in relief, the eyes and mouth 

 roughly incised and blackened, aud the legs indicated b^^ roughly 

 incised and blackened lines on the obverse face. Both faces are cov- 

 ered with rudely incised and blackened lines. 



^'On the obverse there is a single vertical line between eacli pair of 

 heads. Below the bear's head is a bear heading toward the right; 

 under the first human head, an umiak with four men; under the sec- 

 ond, a 'killer'' (Orca) heading toward the right: under the tliird, two 

 of the usual conventionalized whales' tails suspended from a cross line; 

 and under the last, a 'killer' with very large 'flukes' heading toward 

 the left. 



"On the reverse there are, below the bear, a bear heading toward 

 the right, below each of the human heads a whale's tail with the flukes 

 up. and under the bear's head a bear heading toward the right." ^ This 

 end is perforated as before stated. 



Fig. 108 represents a village near a stream, or the seashore. !Nos. 1 

 and 3 are habitations, while the structure at No. 2 represents a store- 



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Fig. 108. 



FISHIXG NEAR THE VILLAGE. 



house, a box-like receptacle built upon poles within which to store food. 

 Upon the entrance way of No. 3 is seen a man occupied in some ordi- 

 nary occupation, but at his left is a vertical pole upon which is a short 

 transverse line, the effigy of a bird or fish, most probably the former. 

 This is a votive oft'ering, or "shaman stick," erected to the memory of 

 a departed member of the family. Bird carvings are deemed the best 

 that can be selected, flying spirits or demons, typified by birds, being 

 considered good omens, whereas walking or crawling ones are often 

 malevolent. 



To the right of the man, over the entrance to the habitation, is another 

 "shaman stick," erected probably with the same motive as the preced- 

 ing one, though to indicate a second person, only one stick being erected 

 to one individual at the same place. 



The four figures seated upon the ground at the water's edge — Xos. 

 4-7 — denote four persons fishing, the floats being visible on the lines of 

 Nos. and 7. 



Fig. 109 represents a party of fishermen, the three figures at the 

 right benig in a seated posture. Considerable surf\ice erosion by con- 

 stant use has weakened the lines at the left side to such an extent as 



' Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1887-88, 1892, pp. 397, 398, fig. 398. 



