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HUNTING SCORES. 



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pear swimming, followed by a rude figure of a man in a kaiak, moans 

 that so many wore lanced in the water. Other incidents of the excur 

 sion are also sometimes represented. On these records the whale is al 

 ways represented by a rude figure of the tail cut off at the &quot; small,&quot; 

 and often represented as hanging from a horizontal line. 



We also brought home four engraved pieces of ivory, which are 

 nothing else than records of 

 real or imaginary scenes. ] 

 have figured all of these. Fig. 

 30 (No. S!4S7 [1020] from 

 Nuwuk) is a narrow Hat tablet 

 of ivory, -i-8 inches long and 

 1 inch wide, with a string at 

 one end to hang it up by. On 

 each face is an ornamental 

 border inclosing a number of 

 incised figures, which probably 

 represent actual scenes, as the 

 tablet is not new. 



The figures on the obverse 

 face are colored with red ocher. 

 At the upper end. standing on 

 a cross line, witli his head 

 toward the end, is a rudely 

 drawn man, holding his right 

 hand up and his left down, with 

 the fingers outspread. At his 

 left stands a boy with both 

 hands down. These figures 

 probably represent the hunter 

 and his son. Just below the 

 cross line is a mini raising a 

 spear to strike an animal which is perhaps meant for a reindeer without 

 horns. Three deer, also without horns, stand with their feet on one 

 border with their heads toward the upper end, and on the other border 

 near the other end are two bucks with large, antlers heading the other 

 way, and behind them a man in a kaiak. I5etweeu him and the animal 

 which the first man is spearing is an object which may represent the 

 crescent moon. The story may perhaps be freely translated as follows: 

 &quot;When the moon was young the man and his son killed six reindeer, 

 two- of them bucks with large antlers. One they speared on land, the 

 rest they chased with the kaiak.&quot; 



On the reverse the figures and border are colored black with soot. 

 In the left-hand lower corner is a she bear and her cub heading to the 

 left, followed by a man who is about to shoot an arrow at them. Then 

 come two more, bears heading toward the right, and in the, right-hand 



FIG. 360. Hunting; srnrr mg;raviil on ivory. 



