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elevated and the other apparently so curved as to pretend to touch 

 himself, indicating that he is contemplating something or has performed 

 some deed; the third space contains the conventional figure of a 

 whale s tail to indicate that animal, and in the remaining space, at the 

 bottom, is a whale with what appears to denote a float attached to a 

 harpoon line. 



The other side of the tablet, that bearing the cord, has in the left- 

 hand space an animal probably intended to denote a wolf; the upper 

 panel has within it a deer, the horns being turned back, whereas to. 

 denote the reindeer they would be turned forward; the next, like the 

 first, appears to be a wolf, while the fourth has two animals seated 

 upon their haunches, facing one another, after the manner of dogs, 

 although they appear to closely resemble the first and third, which are 

 believed to denote wolves, as before stated. 



Fig. 3. 

 DANCING GOROET OF WOOD; FROM POINT BARROW. 



An old and weatherworn mask from Point Barrow is shown in fig. 2. 

 It is made of spruce wood, and measures 7 inches in length. It is 

 peculiar in having the outer corners of the eyes somewhat depressed, 

 and in addition to the mustache and imperial has a broad &quot;whaleman s 

 mask &quot; drawn with black lead across the eyes. 



Mr. Murdoch 1 says of the specimen that &quot;this mask has been for a 

 long time fastened to an ornamented wooden gorget, and appeared to 

 have been exposed to the weather, perhaps at a cemetery. The string 

 is made of unusually stout sinew braid.&quot; 



A decorated gorget is shown in fig. 3. It is from Point Barrow, and 

 Mr. Murdoch 2 describes it thus: 



It is made of spruce, is 18.5 inches long, and has two beckets of stout sinew braid, 

 one to go round the neck and the other round the body under the wearer s arms. 



1 Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnolgy for 1887-88, 1892, pp. 367, 368, 

 iig. 367. 

 *Idem,p 370,fig.372a. . 



