382 THE POINT HARROW ESKIMO. 



on the left side with a single-bladed paddle. His arms are of whale 

 bone, and by means of strings he can be made to paddle and turn his 

 head from side to side. The kaiak is 29 inches long, very neatly carved 

 from a single block of wood, and solid except at the cockpit. The bot 

 tom is flat, to allow it to stand on the floor, but it is otherwise precisely 

 of the model of the kaiaks in the Museum from the Mackenzie and 

 Anderson region. The nation who made it called it a &quot;Kuiimu d lin&quot; 

 kaiak. It is painted all over with red ocher, except on the bottom. The 

 figure lias no legs and fits into the cockpit, which is without any coam 

 ing. The head is separate and mounted on a long, slender pivot, which 

 is fitted into a hole in the neck just loosely enough to allow it to turn 

 easily. It is dressed in a hood of seal gut. The face is very natural, 

 though rather rudely carved, and is lightly colored all over with red 

 ocher, with the mouth painted deeply red, and the eyebrows, eyes, nos 

 trils, and beard marked with black lead. The arms are narrow strips 

 of whalebone, the ends of which protrude at the wrists, and are tied to 

 the paddle by the ends of the strings which work it. The body is cov 

 ered with a gut shirt. 



The paddle is of the common shape, and has the blade and the lower 

 end of the shaft painted red. The strings for working this contrivance 

 are of fine sinew braid. One string is tied into a little hole in the edge 

 of the hood, where the left ear would be, the other passes round the 



Km. 382. Kaiak carved from a block of wood. 



edge of the hood, and is tied at the right ear. These strings cross back 

 of the head, and pass through two neat little ivory eyebolts inserted 

 in the deck, 1 inch abaft the cockpit, and 1 inch apart. The strings 

 from the hands are not crossed, but pass through two similar eyebolts, 

 one at each edge of the deck, 2-5 inches from the cockpit. The ends of 

 each set of strings are tied together. When the right pair and left 

 pair of strings are pulled alternately, the man makes a stroke and looks 

 to the right, then &quot;recovers&quot; and looks to the left. Both stroke and 

 &quot;recovery&quot; are aided by the elasticity of the arms. This specimen 

 shows a gueat deal of mechanical ingenuity, and was the only finished 

 object of the kind seen. 



Fig. 382 (No. 89856 [783] from Utkiavwin) is a kaiak intended for a 

 similar toy, which, when brought over for sale, had an unfinished arm 

 less doll in the cockpit. This was, unfortunately, lost in unpacking. 

 The kaiak, which is 27-6 inches long, is not new, but has been freshly 

 scraped and painted on deck. It is also a foreign kaiak, being precisely 

 like a model brought by Mr. Nelson from Norton Sound. It is not un 

 likely that this boat itself came from that region through the &quot; Nunataii- 



