GRAPHIC ART OP THE ESKIMOS. 



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Another interesting specimen of workmanship, bearing ornamenta 

 tion of the same character as the preceding, is shown in fig. 45, and 

 consists of a chisel. The small blade has an oblique tip, not beveled 

 to an edge, and is hafted in walrus ivory, yellow from age. The 

 nucleated rings are colored with red ocher, and the two halves of the 

 handle are fastened together by a stout wooden treenail and a stitch of 

 whaiebone. 1 



Fig. 43. 

 DIPPEE OF FOSSIL IVORY. 2 



The accompanying illustration of the foreshaft of a seal dart, fig. 46, 

 is given, reproduced from the report on the natives of Point Barrow. 3 

 The ornamentation is confined almost wholly to the nucleated circles, 

 the only animate object portrayed being a deer. It is said that some 

 of these shafts are highly ornamented, the figures being all incised 

 and colored, some with ocher and some with soot. 



The specimen shown on plate 53 represents a decorated hunting hat 

 from Katmai Island, Cooks Inlet, Alaska, and was collected by Mr. 

 W. J. Fisher. 



Fig. 44. 



LARGE KNIFE WITH ORNAMENTED HANDLE. 



This variety of head covering is common to the natives of the islands 

 of Kadiak and those occupied by the Aleuts. This specimen is made 

 of wood shaved down until the average thickness is only about one- 

 fourth of an inch, \vhile the height along the front, from the top to the 

 bottom of the visor, is 9|^ inches. The color in chief is of white; the 

 horizontal band about the bottom, flesh color; the remaining vertical 

 stripes in front and about the top, and downward through the cresceut- 



1 Ninth Annual Report Bureau of Ethnology, 1887-88. 1892, p. 173, iigs. 113 and 114. 



2 Idem, fig. 42, p. 103. 



3 Idem, p. 217, fig. 204. 



