962 REPORT OF NATIONAL MtlSEUM, 1895. 



Drill bow. Cape Nome. E. W. Nelson. 44367. Represents a walrus huut and 

 harpoon throwing. Illustrations have been selected from this rod and repro- 

 duced in connection with hunting and fishing. 

 Bag handle. Cape Nome. E. W. Nelson. 44398. This fine large specimen has 

 numerous figures of flying birds and human forms resembling the Ojibwa 

 thunder bird. Whale and other hunts are also portrayed. 

 Drill bow. Cape Nome. E. W. Nelson. 44399. A strong piece measuring Hi 

 inches in length. The two flat sides and one lateral edge have been decorated. 

 Bag HANDLE. Cape Nome. [E. AV. Nelson. ?] 44427. Bears crude though typical 

 characters of umiak, +-like bird figures, and several human figures. The speci- 

 men is yellow and considerably worn. 

 Drill bow. Cape Nome. E. W. Nelson. 44400. A narrow specimen, measuring 

 13i inches in length, five-sixteenths of an inch high, and one-fourth of an inch 

 thick. The engravings represent walrus hunting, and two of Ihe kaiaks are 

 unusually interesting, the spear rack or guard being indicated in the first kaiak, 

 while on the second the harpoon line is shown with the twists and curves observ- 

 able when a coiled line is cast out. 

 Drill bow. Cape Nome. E. W. Nelson. 44401. Plate [23], fig. 1. 

 Drill BOW. Cape Nome. (E.W.Nelson.?) 41464. Interesting from the fact that 

 both slopes of the under surface bear row.s of umiaks, some with meats and some 

 without, so placed as to suggest ornamentation rather than an attemi)t to record 

 historic or other information. 



Upon the upper side the entire length is also divided by a median line. Upon 

 either side the space is filled with various figures, such as camp scenes, dances, 

 and various avocations. 



The specimen is rather yellow with age, and the figures partly tilled with a 

 brownish black substance. 

 Drill bow. Cape Nome. E. W. Nelson. 44465. A yellow, old, piece of ivory, 

 with a sharp-^ined series of small figures at the end upon the upper edge of 

 the bow. There arc five swimming seals, rather conventional in outline, above 

 which three birds are seen in the forms of small cross-like characters. Before 

 these is a figure resembling a bear( ?) and still farther forward a seal. 

 Drill bow. Cape Nome. E. W. Nelson. 444':6. Plate 24, fig. 4. 

 Drill bow. Cape Nome. (E. W. Turner.) 44467. Tbeherdof deer upon the upper 

 curve of this specimen is shown as a text figure. The lower side, and the edges 

 also, bear camp scenes, while various human figures in attitudes of gesture are 

 shown on the side. 

 Kantag handle. Sledge Island. E. W. Nelson. 44690. 

 Bag handle. Sledge Island. E.W.Nelson. 44691. 



Bag handle. Sledge Island. E. W. Nelson. 44716. Measures but 5| inches in 

 length, and bears upon the top some conventional " trident " tree figures, each 

 placed alternately faoing, between parallel longitudinal lines. 

 Kantag handle. Sledge Island. E.W.Nelson. 44717. 



Drill bow. Sledge Island. E.W.Nelson. 45016. Parts of this are reproduced 

 in text figure. The lines are sharp and cleanly incised. One pecularity in the 

 figures of human beings on records from Sledge Island is that the heads are all, 

 or nearly all, made by boring with drill. One side of another face l>ears an 

 umiak with harpooned whale, following a neatly engraved white umi;ik con- 

 taining 3 figures. 



The under side bears some obscene figures, or rather those made obscene by 

 gesture and additional drawings. 

 Drill bow. Sledge Island. E. W. Nelson. 45017. The figures of a series of hab- 

 itations, boats on racks, and umiaks afloat, are all neatly and definitely incised. 

 Upon the reverse is a settlement of two winter hai)itations and one scaffold, 

 the five human figures being portrayed with hands and arms elevated, slightly 

 inclined toward the left end of the bow, seemingly as if some further portion of 

 a record had been contemplated but not executed. The color employed in fill- 

 ing the incision is black, and the entire si)ecimen, and engravings, has a modern 

 appearance. 



