862 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1895. 



lias captured, while in front of him stands a reindeer which is being 

 shot at by a native who is armed with bow and arrow. A little farther 

 to the left, upon the same line, a man is lying flat upon the ground 

 with his gun directed toward the deer. Between the two elevated 

 storehouses are eighteen natives in various attitudes, participating in 

 a dance. At the right is a winter habitation, upon which an Indian 

 stands with one hand elevated, the object in his hand evidently denot 

 ing a tambourine drum. A votive offering is shown over the entrance 

 to the habitation, while to the right is seen rising a column of smoke. 

 Upon the scaffold beneath the square part of the structure represent 

 ing the storehouse is an inverted boat suspended for drying. A partly 

 obliterated figure of a human being occupies the space between the 

 storehouse and the end of the rod. The under sides of the bow are 

 filled with figures of habitations, racks from which are suspended 

 pieces of meat, and individuals occupied with various domestic duties. 

 One portion of another part of the record represents an umiak going 

 away from land toward some small objects which are believed to repre 

 sent seal, while on the shore are represented four men dragging at a 

 large animal, possibly intended to represent a seal, and in front of (hem 

 a dog is hitched to another seal, dragging it home to the camp, possibly 

 to the left. 



Plate 64, fig. 3, also represents an ivory drill bow from Diomede 

 Islands. The ornamentation shown at the left end of the illustration 

 is an attempt at duplicating the peculiar zigzag markings, the simple 

 form of which is shown in plate 31, fig. 4. The next oblong figure on 

 four piles represents a granary or food storehouse. Next is shown a 

 human being with his arms extended in the act of making some ges 

 ture. To the right of this is a building resembling a white man s 

 habitation or trader s store. The mammal to the right of this repre 

 sents a bear. Next come the figures of two walruses, and beyond the 

 middle to the right is the outline of a large bear in the attitude of eat 

 ing some mammal which he has captured at the seashore, apparently 

 a seal or large fish. To the right of this is a very crude figure, some 

 what resembling a whale, with the tail elevated and the head down, 

 though from the &quot; blowholes&quot; there appears to be some spray ascend 

 ing. The latter seems to be represented by dots instead of the usual 

 short lines. To the right of this, upon the base line, is a long-necked 

 animal denoting a seal, and beyond, at the extreme right, is a granary 

 or storehouse elevated upon piles. Turning the specimen so that the 

 upper line becomes the base line there will be observed at the left, to 

 the right of the granary just mentioned, a figure of a seal, next two fair 

 outlines of trees, and a walrus. The pointed figure, almost triangular 

 in shape, appears to denote a summer habitation. The character in the 

 middle of the record, apparently a scaffolding, is not clearly determin- 

 able, as it seems to indicate from one point of view a granary upon a 

 scaffold, but the projec^on at the left with two short vertical lines 



