GRAPHIC ART OF THE ESKIMOS. 901 



winter residence, No. 8, together with the summer lodjje in No. 6, denotes 

 the seftlrmenf. 



The record ou pUite 40, fig. 3, embracing Nos. 1 to 10, is similar in 

 style to one exi^lained by Naomoflf, and pertains to the designation of 

 geographic or rather topographic features of an area of country between 

 thatoccupiedby the recorder and another 

 place to which reference is made. 



No. 1 denotes three birds flying in the 

 air, and No. 2 has reference to four seals, 

 both groups of creatures being at a shore 

 line, as the tree at No. 3 resembling a pine 



■ ^ ^ WALRUS HUNTEK ATTACKKH. 



indicates. The group of trees immedi- 

 ately to the right denotes a grove or woods, indicated by a group of 

 trees being placed close together. No. 4 is a human being and the inten- 

 tion of the recorder is to imply that natives are resident there — beyond 

 the woods. Another grove or forest occurs beyond the settlement, as 

 indicated by the group of trees at No. 5, beyond which another hamlet 

 is situated. 



Then comes another forest at No. 7, beyond which is a locality abound- 

 ing in seals, No. 8. Beyond this is a range of timbered hills, the upland 

 being indicated by a semicircle covered with short vertical lines to 

 denote the timber. 



No. 10 is an ornamental mark similar to No. 18 in imj)ort, and serves 



to denote the end of that particular record. 



^.J»*,j/lj_ A hunting scene begins with No. 11; the 



S \rir whale is moving toward the right, spouting, 



■ f / frflHnXft causing the walrus, No. 12, to move out of the 



'^' ' way. Water fowl are seen at No. 13; while the 



QUARREL OVER GAME. ' 



elevations at No. 11, over which some birds are 

 flying and at the left base of which is another walrus, appear to be 

 rocks protruding from the sea. 



At No. 15 are two other walrus, while at Nos. 16 and 17 are two 

 approaching whaling ships. 



The character at No. 18 concludes the history. 



COMBAT. 



But few illustrations occur in the ivory records in the National 

 Museum collections in which personal combat is portrayed. Wrest- 

 ling is shown, in one instance, under the caption of Pastimes and 

 (Tames, while another denoting a struggle and combat with a walrus, 

 both being in the water, is given below. 



Fig. 117 represents an Alaskan in the water killing a walrus. The 

 exploit was deemed of sufiHcient importance to perpetuate it by record- 

 ing the illustration upon a slab of ivory, now in the museum of the 

 Alaska Commercial Comi)any, San Francisco, California. 



Two men having a serions altercation over a seal are shown in fig. 

 118. One is unarmed, while tlie other has a bow and arrow which he 



