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Dolls. Though several dolls and various suits of miniature clothing 

 were made and brought over for sale, they do not appear to be popular 

 with the little girls. I do not recollect ever seeing a child playing with 

 a doll. Those in the collection, indeed, seem rather less intended for 

 playthings than as, so to speak, works of art to catch the fancy of the 

 strangers. Such an object is No. 89728 [1304] ( Fig. 379 from Utkiavwm.) 

 This is a human head carved out of pine wood, and shouldered off at 

 the neck into a stout round peg, which is titted into the middle of a 

 thick elliptical pedestal of the same wood, flat on the bottom and con 

 vex on top. The head is dressed 

 in a neatly made hood of thin 

 deerskin with the flesh side cut 

 off round the shoulders and ex 

 posing only the face. The face 

 is very neatly carved, and has 

 bits of green oxidized copper 

 inlaid for the eyes. The cheeks, 

 gums, and inside of the mouth 

 are colored with red ocher, and 

 the hair, eyebrows, and beard 

 with black lead. The top of the 

 pedestal is painted red and di 

 vided into eight equal parts by 

 shallow grooves colored with 

 black lead. The height of the 

 whole object is 4 inches, and 

 the workmanship is remarkably 

 good. 



Xo. 89827 [1138] (from Utkiav- 

 \vifi), on the other hand, is very 

 roughly and carelessly made. It 

 is 18-2 inches long, roughly whit 

 tled out of a flat piece of redwood board into the shape of a man with his 

 legs wide apart and holding up his hands on each side of his head. The 

 arms are very short and broad, with five fingers all nearly of the same 

 length, and the legs are simply two straight four-sided pegs rounded on 

 the edges. It is dressed in a hooded frock of seal gut reaching to the 

 knees and leaving only the face and hands uncovered, and has sealskin 

 knee boots on the legs. The face is rudely in relief, with two narrow bits 

 of ivory inlaid for eyes, and a long canine tusk of the same material 

 inserted in each corner of the mouth. Three small round bits of wood 

 are inlaid in the forehead, one in the middle and one over each eye, and 

 one in the right cheek above the corner of the mouth. The gut frock 

 is carelessly made of irregular pieces. It is trimmed round the bottom 

 and the edge of the hood with a strip of dogskin, but is left with a raw 



FIG. 157!*. Carving ol human head. 



