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THE POINT HARROW ESKIMO. 



lower corner is a whale with two floats attached to him by a harpoon 

 line. Above this is an umiak with four men in it approaching another 

 whale, which has already received one harpoon with its two floats. The 

 harpoon which is to be thrust at him may be seen sticking out over the 

 bow of the boat. Then come two whales in a line, one heading to the 

 left and one to the, right. In the left-hand upper corner is a figure 

 which may represent a boat, bottom up, on the staging of four posts. 

 We did not learn the actual history of this tablet, which was brought 

 down for sale with a number of other things. 



Fig. 301 (No. 89473 [1340] from Utkiavwifi) is a piece of an old suow- 

 shovel edge with freshly incised figures on both faces, which the artist 



FIG. 361. Hunting score engraved on ivory, obverse and reverse. 



said represented his own record. The figures are all colored with red 

 ocher. On the obverse the figures all stand on a roughly drawn ground 

 line. At the left is a man pointing his rifle at a bear, which stands on 

 its hind legs facing him. Then comes a she bear walking toward the 

 left followed by a cub, then two large bears also walking to the left, 

 and a she bear in the same attitude, followed by two cubs, one behind 

 the other. This was explained by the artist as follows : &quot; These are 

 all the bears I have killed. This one alone (pointing to the rampant 



Flo. 362. Hunting scons engraved oil ivory. 



one) was bad. All the others were good.&quot; We heard at the time of his 

 giving the death shot to the last bear as it was charging his comrade, 

 who had wounded it with his muzzle-loader. On the reverse, the 

 figures are in the same position. The same man points his rifle at a 

 string of three wolves. His explanation was: &quot; These are the wolves 

 1 have killed.&quot; 



Fig. 362 (No. 89474 [1334] from Utkiavwlil) is newly made, but was 

 said to be the record of a man of our acquaintance named Muiiiiiolu. 

 It is a flat piece of the outside of a walrus tusk 9-7 inches long and 1-8 

 wide at the broader end. The figures are incised on one face only, and 



