922 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1895. 



pictures will be brought iuto proper position. Beginning at the left, 

 are two elongated figures, each upon stilts, which represent the scaf 

 folds upon which these boats are placed for drying. Three winter habi 

 tations are next in order, about which are a number of human beings 

 in various attitudes. Smoke issues from the top of the house, and the 

 vertical rods projecting from the first and second indicate votive offer 

 ings. To the right of the third house are three human beings standing 

 about an umiak, which is drawn foreshortened, and a line extending to 

 the right to an oblong figure, which is a seal which they have captured. 

 There are outlines of five natives with arms extended, one with a spear, 

 but the import of these characters is not intelligible. The next figure, 

 however, is shown in the act of dragging a seal, while beyond it is 

 another seal, toward which a native is throwing his spear. Beyond 

 the latter is shown the body of another seal, toward which a hunter is 

 crawling on all fours, and in an opposite direction from him is his com 

 panion engaged in like pursuit of another seal, shown to the right. As 

 the bow is shown in the illustration, with the figure of a shaman at the 

 right, it will be observed that along the upper face are a number of 

 illustrations which represent various avocations. At the extreme right 

 is the body of a reindeer lying upon the ground, the horns at the right 

 projecting upward, and upon the body of the animal, as well as behind 

 it, are birds feeding upon it. Following this toward the right are four 

 other animals of like species, with the outlines of a fifth, which can not 

 be clearly determined. Following the base line for some distance, we 

 come to another deer in the act of browsing. A little beyond the 

 middle, toward the right, are three natives, the first going toward the 

 right with his harpoon directed forward, the second with a line extend 

 ing to the right to some object upon the ground, which the third appears 

 to be stabbing with his spear, the weapon being uplifted. This may 

 represent the killing of a seal. Another native is seen approaching 

 this group of three, beyond which is the outline of a large mammal, 

 evidently intended to represent a deer. 



By again turning the bow upside down, so that the upper line becomes 

 the base line, another record presents itself. The group of figures at 

 the extreme left denotes two natives occupied in boiling something, as 

 their hands are attached to short lines extending into the kettles, which 

 arc placed against the fire from which the smoke is rising. It is very 

 likely that they are cooking the meat of the reindeer, as the hide of 

 the animal is suspended from the horizontal drying pole or scaffold at 

 the right, beneath which another native is occupied in hanging up the 

 meat. The large, irregularly drawn body to the right of this scaffold 

 appears to denote a habitation. Two human beings are engaged 

 between this and a triangular body which may denote a summer habi 

 tation, the latter being usually made of bark, canvas, or boards. To 

 the right of the triangular building is a human being, beside him being 

 another scaffold or drying pole from which is suspended the hide of a 



