874 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1895. 



A man in a kneeling posture, about to throw a spear at an animal, is 

 shown in fig. 92. The attitude is lifelike and the sketch well made. 

 An illustration of shooting a reindeer is shown in fig. 93. The man 

 is lying upon the ground and is using a gun instead of 

 a bow and arrow. 



The illustration given in fig. 94 is a remarkably clever 

 rig. 92. kit o f engraving, especially in the attitude assumed by 

 the native in drawing the bow. The arrow has already 

 been discharged and is on its message of death, but a short distance 

 from the head of the animal. Immediately in front of the hunter is a 

 mound upon which is a tree, behind which the hunter approached to 

 within shooting distance. The animal is 

 drawn facing the hunter to indicate the ^ ^^ ^~ 



fact that it was secured. 



The flatness and absence of mark 

 ings upon the mound indicate the differ 

 ence between it and a winter habitation. 



The bag handle shown on plate 58, fig. 2, presents three panels, on 

 which are portrayals of natural objects. The separating lines consist 

 of pairs of vertical zigzag markings, while the front panel bears the 



figure of a hunter armed with a bow and 

 arrow in pursuit of reindeer, one of these 

 animals being indicated in each of the 

 two remaining panels. 



The two ^dividual characters repre 

 sented in fig. 95 as Nos. 3 and 5 are 



intended to denote the same person. The one, as No. 3, is the hunter 

 armed with bow and arrow, and by hiding himself behind the tree, No. 

 2, he was enabled to shoot the buck, No. 1, when the latter had kept 

 on grazing to within proper range. Being hidden from view of the doe, 

 No. G, by the hill, No. 4, the hunter imitated the call of the male, thus 

 bringing within range the female. The figure in No. 5 represents, as 

 above stated, the hunter, but in this additional form in order to give 



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Fig. 95. 



HUNTING DEER. 



him the gesture of calling or beckoning with the left hand, in the direc 

 tion indicated by the extended right arm and hand, the attitude of the 

 animal also showing that it followed. The Imnter has projecting from 

 his mouth a short black line, denoting voice, produced by whistling or 

 a decoy whistle. 



The sketch shown in fig. 96 is of interest on account of the indica 

 tion shown by the artist that the reindeer is wounded and can not 



