MURDOCH.] 



DOLLS. 



381 



edge round the wrists. The boots arc rather well made models of the 

 regular waterproof boots, 

 with soles of white sealskin 

 and a band round the top 1 

 inch wide of the same mate 

 rial. A short peg projects 

 from the top of the forehead. 

 A string of stout sinew braid 

 about 2 feet long is passed 

 through a hole in the middle 

 of the body and a knot tied 

 iu the end in front. Though 

 the design is elaborate the 

 workmanship is very rude, 

 and the clothes seem to be 

 made of odds and ends. The 

 maker perhaps had in mind 

 a fabulous man with teeth 

 like a walrus, about whom 

 we heard some fragmentary 

 traditions. 



Fig. 380 (No. 89826 [1358J 

 from Utkiavwlfi) is a clever, 

 though somewhat roughly 

 made, mechanical doll. It represents a man dressed in deerskins 

 sitting with his legs outstretched and holding in his extended left 

 hand a drum and in his right a stick, as if beating the drum. 

 The arms are of whalebone, and by pressing them he can be made to 

 beat the drum. The doll is made of a single piece of wood a knot with 

 two branches, which make the legs. (I learned this from Capt. Heren- 

 deen, who saw this doll at the village before it was finished.) The 

 height of the sitting figure is 11 inches. 



Fm. 380. Mechanical doll: drum player. 



Flo. 381. Mechanical toy ; kaiak paddler. 



A still more ingenious mechanical toy which, however, like the pre 

 ceding, was ?nade for sale, is shown in Fig. 381 (No. .SO.S.j.&quot;) [1351] from 

 Utkiavwlfi). This is a man sitting in a k^iak in the attitude of paddling 



