HUNTING SCORES. 



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colored with red oclier. Thefaceis divided lengthwise into two panels 

 by a horizontal line. In the upper panel, at the left, is a man facing to 

 the right and pointing- a gnn at a line of three standing deer, facing 

 toward the left. Two are bucks and one a doe. Then come two 

 bucks, represented without legs, as if swimming in the water, followed 

 by a rude figure of a man in a kaiak. Below the line at the left is aii 

 umiak with five men, and then a row of twelve conventionalized whales 

 tails, of which all but the first, second, and fifth are joined to the hor 

 izontal line by a short straight line. The record may be freely trans 

 lated as follows: &quot; I went out with my gun and killed three large 

 reindeer, two bucks and a doe. I also speared two large bucks in the 

 water. My whaling crew have taken twelve whales.&quot; The number of 

 whales is open to suspicion, a.s they just till up the board. 



Flo. 363. Hunting score engraved on ivory, obverse ami reverse. 



Fig. 363 (No. 56517 [121] from Utkiavwln) is a piece of an- old snow- 

 shovel edge 4-2 inches long, with a loop of thong at the upper side to 

 hang it up by. It is covered on both faces with freshly incised figures, 

 colored with red ocher^represeuting some real or imaginary occurrence. 



The obverse is bordered with a single narrow line. At the left is a 

 man standing with arms outstretched supporting himself by two slen 

 der staffs as long as he is. In the middle are three rude figures of 

 tents, very high and slender. At the right is a hornless reindeer head 

 ing to the left, with a man standing on its back with his legs straddled 



