MURDOCH.] 



IMAOES. 



has been drawn in very much the same shape. Tlie features are very 

 rudely indicated, and a long projecting tusk of bone is inserted at 

 each corner of the mouth and glued in with refuse oil. This 

 figure is probably meant to represent the- &quot; man with tusks, before 

 referred to, who figures in several of the legendary fragments which 

 we obtained. 



No. SO. iOS [1108], from Utkiavwlfi, probably represents the same being. 

 It is a mask of soapstone, a piece of an old lamp, 2-S inches long, with 

 very characteristic features in low relief, and a, pair 

 of sharp, projecting, decurved tusks, about 1 inch 

 long, which appear to be made of the vihrissre of 

 the walrus. The back of the mask is roughly hol 

 lowed out. No. 89575 [1014], from Ninvfik, is a 

 clumsy and carelessly made image of a man, 3-4 

 inches long, whittled out of a flat, rough piece of 

 soft, white gypsum. The arms are short and clum 

 sy and the legs straddling, and there is a large ellip 

 tical hole through the middle of the body. The 

 features are indicated only by digging little cavities 

 for the eyes, nostrils, and mouth. This and two 

 other images of the same material, a be.ir equally 

 rude, and a very well carved and characteristic be 

 luga, were made by the ingenious young native, 

 Yoksu, previously mentioned. 



The best bone figure of a man is shown in Fig. 301 

 (No. S0353 [1025], from Nuwuk), also newly made. 

 This is an image, 5 inches long, of the giant &quot; Kika- 

 migo, 1 previously mentioned, and is a very excellent 

 piece of workmanship. The material is rather vas 

 cular compact bone. On the head is a conical 

 dancing cap, 1-4 inches high, made of deerskin, with 

 the flesh side out, and colored with red ocher, with 

 a tuft of wolf hairs, . ? inches long, protruding from 

 the apex. Around the middle of the cap is a narrow strip of the same 

 material fringed on the lower edge with fifteen flat, narrow pendants 

 of ivory, made to represent mountain-sheep teeth. To the back of this 

 strip is fastened a half-downy feather nearly 4 inches long. A slender 

 wooden stick is stuck into the strip behind, so that the tip reaches 

 just above, the apex of the cap. To a notch in the end of this is tied a 

 bit of dressed deerskin, 1^ inches long, cut into three ships. 



Fig. 302 (No. 80348 [1127], from rtkiavwln) is an image neatly carved 

 from whale s bone, which may have been meant for an amulet, or pos 

 sibly the handle of a drill cord, as it is not new, and has two oblique 

 holes in the middle of the back, which meet so as &quot;to form a longitudinal 

 channel for a string. The eyes, mouth, and labret holes are incised anil 

 tilled with black dirt. The total length is . &amp;gt;:{ inches. 



Km. ::91. lioiit- image of 

 dancer. 



