[3] THE UNITED STATES EXHIBIT AT BERLIN. 55 



reindeer" of Thayingen, mentioned in support of their assertions the 

 skill shown by the Esquimaux of our days in adorning their various 

 bone implements with sketches of human beings, animals, houses, and 

 other things. Eeference was made at the time to a number of articles 

 of this kind which had been in some of our museums for a considerable 

 period, and to reproductions of the same which, besides the famous 

 French drawings of the mammoth, &c., had found their way in various 

 works treating of prehistoric times, such as Lubboch's Prehistoric Ages, 

 Beer's Frehistoric Man, and others. If any collection could have shown 

 us implements adorned in the manner above described, it would certainly 

 have been the American exhibit; but, unfortunately, nothing of the 

 kind is found in it. Some of the articles placed on exhibition show con- 

 siderable skill in carving, strongly reminding us of the style of orna- 

 mentation common on nearly all coasts of the Pacific Ocean. It is a 

 peculiar, but not altogether inexplicable, circumstance, that the wooden 

 fishhook of the natives of the farthest Northwest of North America is 

 frequently ornamented with wooden figures, and that we also find here 

 some very beautiful and characteristic boat-ornaments of carved wood. 

 It is presumed that Mr. Giinther, of Dorotheen street, the ofiflcial pho- 

 tographer, of the Exposition, will produce pictures of these ornaments 

 which are of such interest to our anthropologists. 



After this digression, which has shown us one of the many branches 

 in which the American exhibit has produced so much interesting matter, 

 we will return to our report proper, and, lingering for a few moments in 

 this class, we cannot fail to notice the 200 artificial flies, exclusively 

 used for catching salmon, trout, and bass, manufactured by Messrs. 

 Bradford & Anthony, of Boston, and the collection of 120 flies for catch- 

 ing iSalmo fhi/maUus, exhibited by Messrs. Conroy, Bisset & Malleson, 

 of New York, showing an endless variety in this one specialty. Owing 

 to a lack of proper space, one of the most interesting of the fishing- 

 boats placed on exhibition, a canoe made of birch bark, from the north 

 ern i)art of the United States, containing the characteristic figures of 

 two reddish-brown Indians engaged in fishing, has unfortunately got 

 rather an unfavorable place. We need scarcely tell our readers that 

 the exhibit compiises a large variety of models of canoes, and of 

 Esquimaux kayaks and "ummisks." Friends of aquatic sports will 

 be interested in the exceedingly practical portable boats; no more can 

 be desired than the portable boat, exhibited by Osgood & Chapiu, 

 Battle Creek, Mich., which measures 15 feet in length. It weighs 

 20 pounds, is intended for four men, and can be iDropelled verj^ rapidly 

 by two oars. Even wben loaded with a weight of 850 pounds it only 

 draws 8 inches of water. The price of such a boat is $45. One of the 

 most important boats used in the United States for fisliiug is the "dory," 

 which somewhat resembles our Pommeranian coast-boat. No fewer 

 than six such " dories," completely equipped for different fishing pur- 

 poses, are found in the exhibition ; one, completely rigged, in the upi)er 



