ESKIMO PATIENCE. j^ 



living thing with the form of which they 

 are familiar. They will make rude 

 dominoes and sit and play with them for 

 hours at a time during their long winter 

 evenings. And not toys only, but many 

 articles of utility also are thus carved 

 from the ivory taken from the tusks of 

 the walrus. Walrus and seal spear- 

 heads, and the sharpened head of the 

 lances they used in killling the musk-ox 

 and polar bear, were formerly thus made. 

 In fact, it would have been almost impos- 

 sible for the Eskimo to exist without this 

 valuable portion of the walrus, before 

 an acquaintance with the white men en- 

 abled them to secure iron and guns to 

 replace their own rude implements. 

 The principal use now made of the 

 tusks is to trade them in quantities 

 to the whalers, who pay for them 



