882 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1895. 



taqi men, ami daduk ajlaluk , a quia mnk piqu a ajlaluk ; 



five, weasel one, land otter caught one : 



kuqu lu hunumuk ajlaluk , tun dumuk tn/guqli ugu/ melu ganuk , 



wolf one, deer (I) killed two, 



pe luk pinai unuk, nu nuk pit quni , maklak muk pit quni , 



beaver three. porcupine (I) caught none, seal (I) caught none, 



atshi anamuk pit quni , uaqi larnuk pit quni , tagu ^amuk 



walrus (I) caught none, fox (I) caught none, bear 



pit quni . 



(I) caught none. 



In the collection from Point Barrow is one example, of wlricli an 

 illustration is here reproduced in fig. 102. It is a piece of the edge of 

 an old snow shovel, and measures 4.2 inches long, with a loop of thong 

 at the upper edge to admit of suspension. It is covered on both sides 

 with freshly incised figures, colored with red ocher, and is described 

 by Mr. Murdoch as follows: 1 



The obverse is bordered with a single narrow line. At the left is a man standing 

 with arms outstretched, supporting himself by two slender staffs as long as ho is. 

 In the middle are three rude figures of tents, very high and slender. At the right 

 is a hornless reindeer heading to the left, with a man standing on its hack with 



Fig. 103. 



HUNTING SCORE ENGRAVED ON IVORY. POINT BARROW. (AFTER MURDOCH.) 



his legs straddled apart and his arms uplifted. Oil the reverse there is no border, 

 but a single dog and a man who supports himself with a long staff are dragging an 

 empty rail sledge toward the left. 



I find no mention of the use of any such scores among the eastern Eskimo. 



The engraving represented in fig. 103 is from a fiat piece of the out 

 side of a walrus tusk 9.7 inches long and 1.8 wide at the broader end. 

 The engravings are very crude, when compared with some of the work 

 from the west coast of Alaska. The specimen is one of the four pieces 

 brought back from Point Barrow by Mr. Murdoch, and the following is 

 his description. 2 



The figures are incised on one face only and colored with red ocher. The face is 

 divided lengthwise into two panels by a horizontal line. In the upper panel, at the 

 left, is a man facing to the right and pointing a gun at a line of three standing deer, 

 facing toward the left. Two are bucks and one a doe. Then come two bucks, rep 

 resented without legs, as if swimming in the water, followed by a rude figure of a 

 man in a kaiak. Below the line at the left is an umiak with five men and then 

 a row of twelve conventionalized whales tails, of which all but the first, second, 

 and fifth are joined to the horizontal line by a short straight line. The record may 

 be freely translated as follows: &quot;I went out with my gun and killed three large 



Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1887-88, 1892, pp. 363, 364, fig. 363. 

 2 Idem, p. 362, 363. 



