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miuii,&quot; unless, possibly, a southern kaiak had passed through the hands 

 of enough people to reach a point where some Point Barrow native 

 might see it. As far as we know no Point Barrow natives visit the 

 regions where this form is used, and the model seems too accurate to 

 have been made from a description. 



Jurenile implements. We sometimes saw the children playing with 

 little models of the implements and utensils used by their parents. 

 Perhaps the commonest thing of this sort is the boy s bow. As soon 

 as a boy is able to walk his father makes him a little bow suited to 

 his strength, with blunt arrows, with which he plays with the other 

 boys, shooting at marks for instance, the fetal reindeer brought home 

 from the spring hunt till he is old enough to shoot small birds and 

 lemmings. We also saw children playing with little drums, and one 

 man made his little boy an elaborate ka moti about 4 feet long. In the 

 collection are a number of miniature implements, spears, etc., some of 

 which have been already described, which were perhaps intended as 

 playthings for the children. As, however, they w r ere all newly made, 

 it is possible that they were merely intended to catch the fancy of the 

 strangers. 



No. 89451 [1113], from Nuwiik, is a little snow shovel 4-5 inches long, 

 with a blade 2-1 inches wide, rather roughly carved from a piece of wal 

 rus ivory. 



No. 89095 [1280] from Utkiavwifi, is a similar model of a deer lance, 

 7 inches long, all in one piece and made of reindeer antler. 



No. 89797 [1186] from Utkiavwlfi, is a quite well made model of the 

 drum used for accompanying singing and dancing, and is almost large 

 enough to have been used for a plaything. The stick is entirely out of 

 proportion, being merely a roughly whittled bit of lath, 13 inches long. 



Games and sports. The men have very few sports, though I have 

 sometimes known them to amuse themselves by shooting at a mark 

 with their rifles, and I once heard of a number of them wrestling. 

 As far as I could learn, they wrestle &quot; catch-as-catch-can &quot; without 

 any particular system. We never heard of anything like the athletic; 

 sports mentioned by Bgede 1 and Orantz 2 or the pugilism described 

 by Schwatka among the people of King William s Laud, when two men 

 stand up to each other and exchange buffets till one or the other gives 

 in. 3 The women are very fond of playing &quot; cat s cradle &quot; whenever 

 they have leisure, and make a number of complicated figures with the 

 string, many of which represent various animals. One favorite figure 

 is a very clever representation of a reindeer, which is made by moving 

 the fingers to run down hill from one hand to the other. 4 Another 

 favorite amusement with the women and children is tossing three bullets 

 or small pebbles with the right hand, after the manner of a juggler, 



1 Greenland, p. 162. 



Vol. 1. p. 177. 



Scienor, vol. 4, Xo. 98, p. 545. 



3 Science, vol. 4, No. 98, p. 545. 

 Hall (Arctic Itesearches, p. 120) says the &quot; cat s cradle &quot; is a favorite amusement in Baffin I.aud, 

 where they make many ligure.s, including representation* of the deer, whale, seal, and walrus. 



