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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1895. 



reindeer. Above fourteen of these animals will be observed black spots 

 denoting bullets, and indicating that that number of animals were shot 

 The remaining five have no such marks, which indicates that that num 

 ber were with the herd, but were not secured. The peculiarity of this 

 unique record is the indication of the bullets, each denoting capture 

 of the game, whereas in most other records from the same region the 

 indication of the capture of game consists in the heads of the animals 

 being turned toward the hunter; those animals seen and not captured 

 being turned in an opposite direction. 



By reversing the bow so as to bring to proper view the small figures 

 at the left-hand upper corner, the reader will perceive at the left an 

 elevated storehouse, to the right of which is a small mound represent 

 ing a winter habitation, while next to the right of this is another struc 

 ture of similar character. The main figure portrayed has a thin line 

 extending from himself to one of the reindeer of the preceding group, 

 indicating that another hunter captured it by means of a lasso or rope. 



On the under side of the bow is a seal-hunting scene. At the left 

 are five kaiaks, four of the hunters being represented with the paddle 



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Fig. 101. 

 RECORD OF HUNT. ALASKA. 



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uplifted horizontally to indicate the presence of game and to call the 

 attention of other hunters to the animals. To the right of the fifth 

 boat is a fish. The next character represents a kaiak, the occupant of 

 which also holds his paddle horizontally above him, as he is approach 

 ing two seals, and indicates to the occupants of the umiak to approach 

 and capture them. One of the hunters in the umiak is portrayed with 

 a gun. The figure at the extreme right represents a fish. 



On the edge of this drill bow is a series of figures apparently 

 intended to fill up the space. The twelve beginning at the left repre 

 sent seals facing the right. Then come five larger animals facing the 

 left, all of these apparently half in water, their projecting heads and 

 bodies very much resembling some characters used for the portrayal of 

 water fowl. The next character, which is T-shaped, is a conventional 

 ized whale tail. The next character to the right is not sufficiently 

 clear to admit of certain identification, but the next four represent 

 deer. Beyond the vertical bar are sixteen rudely executed figures of 

 seals. 



Fig. 101 is a record of a hunting expedition, reproduced from an ivory 

 drill bow in the collection of the Alaska Commercial Company, San 



