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Another man is seen carrying a snowshoe-like object, probably of rein 

 deer or deer, to the summit of the house roof to dry. The pole, with 

 crosspiece, situated near the head of the ladder, is a votive offering 

 erected there by one of the inmates. 



No. 13 is a sledge, upon which is seated the driver using his whip. 

 The dog is urged forward, and another native, one of the three, No. 14, 

 who had been off trading for skins, is hailing a boat seen coming to 

 the shore with the gunwale parallel therewith, pre 

 sen ting another good instance of foreshortening of 

 the object. The man behind the sledge is walking 

 Ei - 68 - along with his staff 7 elevated. The in verted figure 



above seems to belong to a series attempted on 

 that side of the panel of the bow drill, as another figure, having no 

 apparent connection with the completed record, occurs also at a point 

 over the three wading boatmen following the baidarka, No. 1G, which 

 is being pushed ashore. No. 17 is also in shallow water and appears to 

 start away as the oarsmen are seated within with their arms extended 

 grasping the paddle. 



An interesting and cleverly drawn native sketch of a man mending 

 a seine net is shown in fig. CS. The attitude is lifelike, while in one 

 hand is portrayed a short line denoting the shuttle. 



A man splitting wood is shown in the accompanying illustration, 

 fig. G9. He has a heavy mallet or some other like utensil raised above 

 his head, and in the act of driving wedges to split a piece of wood. 



Plate 59, fig. 4, represents an old stained specimen of ivory from 

 Norton Sound. The engravings upon this are rather deep, and are 

 filled Avith deep brown coloring matter. The semicircular objects to 

 the right of the middle, some being shown in rather an angular form 

 toward the left of the middle, represent habitations. These characters 

 appear in a more conventionalized form and for decorative purposes in 

 plate U4, fig. 5. 



The chief interest attached to this record is in the variety of forms 

 of habitations, thus enabling one to perceive the differences in the 

 variants placed in consecutive order. The two 

 extremes are very unlike, and would scarcely be 

 recognized as portraying a similar idea, but for the 

 intervening examples showing the evolution in the 

 execution of form. Fi s- 69&amp;gt; 



The two elongated figures to the right of the habi 

 tations denote inverted kaiaks upon racks for drying. The human fig 

 ures, one of whom is shown seated, represent natives supplicating a 

 shaman for aid. The figure has both arms extended, as in making the 

 gesture for supplication, while the shaman, standing at the left, has his 

 arms and hands uplifted, as in the gesture illustrated in several figures 

 relating to shamanistic ceremonials, termed by the natives as &quot; agitating 



