GRAPHIC ART OF THE ESKIMOS. 885 



The vertical strokes continuing beyond this to the end of the record 

 are simply ornamental, the space being deemed too small for further 

 records. 



At Nos. 16 and 17 are two baidarkas to indicate that the seal was 

 captured while on a hunt by boat. 



The accompanying illustration, in plate 09, fig. 4, represents a fleet 

 of canoes, the natives having gone on a hunt, although the leading 

 umiak only is shown to be engaged in harpooning a whale, No. 7, which, 

 quite unusually, is portrayed with the tail projecting from the water. 

 The animal in front of it is a seal. The No. 9 character denotes a 

 seal diving out of the way. One of the men in No. 12 boat is making 

 a signal of surprise to the boatmen behind, as he has observed the 

 whale in sight and has thus given the alarm as well. 



No. 1 seems to have been intended for a specific character, but may 

 have remained unfinished, merely touching up the right-hand end so as 

 to be ornamental. The two figures in Nos. 2 and 3 indicate wolves, 

 the number captured by the party in the baidarka, No. 4. No. 5 is a 

 whaler observed by the hunters. 



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Fig. 104. 



RIVAL WHALE HUNTERS. 



An illustration of rivalry in hunting the whale is given in fig. 104, 

 but the sequel does not appear. The two boats were pursuing the same 

 animal, which is shown spouting, and the harpoon throwers are in the 

 attitude of casting their weapons at the same instant. 



The etching is strongly and artistically executed. 



Plate 64, fig. 2, represents a very old ivory bow drill from the Dio- 

 mede Islands. The specimen is actually brown with age and bears 

 incisions upon four sides. The surface shown in the illustration bears 

 at the left a large umiak in which are four hunters, the one in the bow 

 being represented as throwing a harpoon toward an approaching 

 whale. Beyond this figure is a hunter in his kaiak who has thrown 

 his harpoon at a whale, the latter being represented with the head pro 

 jecting vertically from the water. The short irregular character in the 

 stern of the kaiak represents the inflated seal-skin float. Two other 

 whales in this upright position are shown to the right of the above 

 mentioned, and they are approached from the right by two hunters in 

 a large umiak, the one in the bow being also represented as having 

 cast a harpoon, the line extending from his hands to the animal. At 

 the extreme right is a hunter in his kaiak. Upon the opposite side of 

 the specimen, beginning at the left, is a walrus being dragged forward 

 by four men. To the right of this group are shown four kaiaks each 

 with its hunters, and each hunter having his harpoon elevated horizon 

 tally above his head as in the act of throwing. Behind the hunters 



