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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1895. 



The figures are all painted ou the front face. In the middle is a man painted with red 

 ocher; all the rest of the figures are black and probably painted with soot. The 

 man with his arms outstretched stands on a large whale, represented as spouting. 

 He holds a small whale in each hand. At his right is a small cross-shaped object 

 which perhaps represents a bird, then a man facing toward the left and darting a 

 harpoon with both hands, and a bear facing to the left. On the left of the red man 

 are two umiaks with five men in each, a whale nearly effaced, and three of the crow- 

 shaped objects already mentioned. Below them also, freshly drawn with a hard, 

 blunt lead pencil or the point of a bullet, are a whale, an umiak, and a three-cornered 

 object the nature of which I can not make out. 



A similar gorget, from the same place, is shown in fig. 4, and appears 

 to have been long exposed to the weather, perhaps at a cemetery, as 

 the figures are all effaced except in the middle, where it was probably 

 &quot; covered by a mask as in fig. 2, which was from the same village.&quot; 



DANCING GORGET OF WOOD; FROM POINT BARROW. 



Mr. Murdoch says of this that &quot;there seems to have been a red bor 

 der on the serrated edge. In tlfe middle is the same red man as before 

 standing on the black whale and holding a whale in each hand. At 

 his right is a black umiak with five men in it, and at his left a partially 

 effaced figure which is perhaps another boat.&quot; The strings are for 

 securing the gorget to the dancer s neck and body. 



Mr. Murdoch 1 remarks of the human figure holding the whales: 

 &quot;This man or giant, able to hold out a whale, appears to be a legend 

 ary character, as we have his image carved in ivory. We unfortu- 



Niuth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology for 1887-88, 1892, p. 371. 



