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Iiouse being at the extreme left end of the first house. Smoke is 

 rising from the middle elevation, while upon the entrance are two 

 persons, one of whom is shown with his arms elevated, as if hailing 

 some one, while the second appears to be in conversation with the man 

 on the scaffold belonging to the next house, at No. 2. On the latter 

 are two people pulling up a ladder to get the hunter to bring up the 

 meat, when the seal, dragged by No. 3, is eaten up. The hunter s dog is 

 following. No. 4 denotes two men pulling at a seal, while those at No. 

 5 are similarly engaged. Nos. 6, 7, 8, and 1) are also taking home their 

 captures. The figure in the air, between Nos. 7 and 8, resembles the 

 usual outline of an evil spirit, as portrayed in connection with cere 

 monial performances of shamans, but in the present connection the 

 import of the character is unintelligible, unless the artist intended to 

 represent one of the natives in the act of jumping. 



No. 10 denotes two seals, No. 11 a water bird, while No. 12 indicates 

 a canoe with the rowers standing about in conversation, in which the 

 inhabitants of No. 13 are participating. 



Fig. 111. 



INFLATED SEAL-SKIN FLOAT. 



No. 14 is the storehouse or scaffold belonging to the occupants of 

 No. 13. 



Plate 22, fig. 5, represents another drill bow or bag handle from 

 Kotzebue Sound. The square object on poles, afc the right end upper 

 line, represents a cache or granary, while the dome- shaped structure is 

 a winter habitation, on the entrance to which is a native with his arm 

 directed downward, as if indicating that place for some particular 

 reason. The next character represents a scaffold used for drying meat 

 or fish. Two men are represented as approaching the rack, both 

 dragging an oddly formed character, probably intended to represent 

 a seal. The mammal is a reindeer, while to the right is an umiak 

 containing four men approaching two figures, the forms of which are 

 not sufficiently distinct to identify. 



Beyond these, however, are two seals whose heads are seen protrud 

 ing from the surface of the water. Another umiak is shown, beyond 

 which three men are shown dragging a seal or walrus. These are 

 followed by three others similarly occupied. The dome- shaped figure 



