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riglit of tlie reindeer appears to be a summer habitation, wliile the 

 iigure of a mammal at the extreme right is not drawn with sufficient 

 accuracy to admit of identification. The under side of the bow con- 

 tains characters the import of which is very much the same as that of 

 those just enumerated. The edges of the bow are decorated with hori- 

 zontal incised lines. 



The record given in plate 60, fig. 2, embraces several diiferent 

 exploits. In No. 1 the helmsman at the end of the large canoe is hold- 

 ing aloft the double-bladed paddle to attract attention and to call for 

 assistance, as a walrus, No. 2, is making an attack upon the native in 

 the kaiak, No. 3. The leaning figure in the stem end of the kaiak is 

 the inflated seal skin used as a float in hunting whale and walrus. 

 No. 4 is rock and indicates shore, near which is No. 5, a large animal. 

 The canoe party at No. G are also making signals, seals having been 

 discovered: No. 9, toward which the native in the kaiak. No. 8, is 

 going, having already thrown his harpoon as indicated by the weapon 

 before the bow, and securing one seal as noted by the harpoon pro- 

 truding from its .back. 



Both boats are near a large rock showing a water-worn cavity, as 

 in No. 7. 



Another native, armed with hari)oon and float, is paddling along at 

 No. 10. The figures at No. 11 and 12 are either partly worn away or 

 incomplete and are unintelligible. 



The regularity with which the hunters and their captured seals are 

 depicted in iflate 00, fig. 3, is a step in the direction of the decorative — 

 representation of a hunting exi)loit. 



Each of the hunters has secured an animal, the hunter dragging 

 No. 2 seal having a bow and arrow while the others have harpoons, 

 the weapon being cleverly indicated by the barbed head in the hands 

 of the native dragging seal No. 10. 



Fourteen seals were secured, only one getting away from the slaughter, 

 as indicated in No. 15. 



The illustration in plate 60, fig. 4, is interesting because of an attempt 

 at perspective. Tbe record was too comprehensive to be engraved upon 

 the ivory surface available, and as there were more canoes employed in 

 the hunt than could be drawn along one line, in consecutive order, three 

 of them are raised to appear as if they were in the air, though in reality 

 beyond the two touching the water line in the foreground. The canoes 

 at No. 2 are for one person only, while that at No. 3 has nine people in 

 it. The walrus, which the party is evidently going to attack, are at 

 No. 1. Nos. 4 to 11 embraces the habitations referring to the fact that 

 a village is located there, while the scaffolds— with the exception of No. 

 6— are for canoes, the vessels being inverted and the paddles ])r()iecting 

 beneath. The exception referred to is a food scaffold, to which a flight 

 of steps has been placed. Two persons are observed on the roof of the 

 house at No. 5, watching the departure of their friends, while a short 



