324 



THK POINT I5AKROW ESKIMO. 



All the deer on this box are represented strictly in profile, so as to show- 

 only two legs and one antler each. On the second panel are 4 deer, all 

 does, followed by a man with a bow slung across his back. On the 

 third, a man in the middle appears to be calling 2 dogs, who, at the 

 left of the panel, are drawing a railed sled. Keversed, and on the upper 

 border of the panel, is a man pushing behind a similar sled drawn 

 by 3 dogs. The head dog has stopped and is sitting down on his 

 haunches. The dogs, like the reindeer, are all strictly in protile and 

 rather conventionalized. In the fourth panel are 3 reindeer followed 

 by a man in his kaiak, and upside down, above, a deer without legs, 



Flo. IC10. Trinket boxes. 



supposed to be swimming in the water, and a very rude figure of a man 

 in his kaiak. These figures probably represent actual occurrences, 

 forming a sort of record. 



Fig. 330a (No. 89408 [1371 J from Sidaru) is a piece of stout antler, 

 4-7 inches long, which has the bottom of pine fitted tightly in without 

 fastenings. The cover is of wood, covered, to make it fit tight, with - 

 parchment, apparently shrunk on and puckered on the upper surface. 

 A thick hank of untwisted sinew is fastened as a handle through the 

 middle of the cover. This box is old and dirty, and contains an unfin 

 ished ttint arrow-head. No. 5G505 [59] from Utkiavwifi, is a new box, 

 closed at the ends with thick shouldered plugs of pine wood. The tube 

 is 8 inches long and ornamented with a conventional pattern of incised 

 lines colored with red ocher. 



