406 



THE POINT BARROW ESKIMO. 



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Flo. 414. Ivory i-arving, tou-k-ggeil lnair. 



for the market. It was called a &quot;walrus man;&quot; but we did not learn 

 whether it was simply a fancy figure or whether there was any story 

 connected with it. 



Fig. 413 (No. 89329 [1101] from Nuwuk) is another monster, 3-9 inches 

 long, carved in ivory. It has a fish s head with large canine teeth, 



and a seal s body, tail, 

 and hind flippers. 

 The eyes, nostrils, 

 gill slits, the outlines 

 of the tail, and the 

 toes, of which there 

 are six on each flip 

 per, are incised and 

 blackened. A row of 

 nineteen small round pits, filled with dark colored dirt runs nearly 

 straight from the nape to the tail. 



Fig. 414 (No. 89339 [1099] from Nuwfik) is a newly made ivory figure, 

 which is interesting from its resemblance to one of the fabulous animals 

 which figure in the Greenland legends. It is 4 indies long and repre 

 sents a long-necked bear with ten legs, an animal which the maker gave 

 us to understand had once 

 been seen at Point Barrow. 

 The resemblance of this ani 

 mal to the&quot; kiliopak&quot; or &quot;kilif- 

 vak&quot; of the Greenland stories, 

 which is described as &quot;an ani 

 mal with six or even ten feet&quot; 

 is quite striking. 



Fig. 415 (No. 89723 [1084] 

 from Nuwfik) is another rep 

 resentation of the giant who 

 holds a whale in each hand. 

 He was called in this instance 

 Kaioasu,&quot; and not &quot;Kikami- 

 go.&quot; This image is carved 

 from very old pale brown wal 

 rus ivory, and is 2-3 inches 

 high. A transverse incised 

 line across each cheek from the wing of the nose, indicates the whale 

 man s tattoo mark of the Eastern fashion. The image is ancient, but is 

 mounted in a socket in the middle of a newly made wooden stand, 

 which has a broad border of red ocher and a broad streak of the same 

 paint along each diameter. 



Fig. 410 (No. 8933(i [1309]) is a curious piece of carving, which Xika- 

 wdalu said he found in one of the ruined houses on the river Kulugrua. 



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Fin. 415. Ivory carviug, giant holding whales. 



1 Riiik, Tales, etc., p. 48. Sue also same- work, passim, among the stories. 



