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tioDs. These are temporary dwellings, and usually constructed at a 

 distance from home. This also indicates the profession of a skin hunter, 

 as the permanent lodges, indicated as winter houses, i. e., with round 

 or dome-like roof, are located near the seashore, and summer houses 

 are only needed when at some distance from home, where a considera 

 ble length of time is spent in hunting. 

 The accompanying illustration, fig. 148, is of a similar nature, and is 



9 erected to the memory of a fisherman. 



JLJU&quot; At a is represented the baidarka, containing the owner 



XX and a companion, probably denoting the friend of him to 



whose memory the tablet was erected. No. b denotes 



^7 the bow used in shooting seal and other small marine 



/ animals. 



No. c is a seal, the chief object of pursuit of the deceased, 

 while d indicates a whale, an animal also hunted by him. 

 c In the illustration in fig. 149 is a drawing of a village 



^^_ and burial ground, drawn by a native in imitation of the 

 original seen by him among the natives of the southern 

 rig. 148. mainland the Aigaluxamut. Carvings are generally on 

 INSCRIPTION FROM walrus ivory, and often on wooden slats. In No. 1 is a 

 representation of the grave post, in position, bearing an 

 inscription similar in general character to those in the last two pre 

 ceding figures. 



The interpretation of the characters is as follows : 

 Nos. 1, 2 7 3, and 4 represent various styles of habitations composing 

 the village. No. 5 is an elevated structure used for storing food. No. 

 G is a box with wrappings, containing the corpse of a child. Scaffold 

 burial is frequent among some of the natives. The small lines, with ball 

 attached, are ornamental appendages, consisting of strips of cloth or 

 skin, with charms, or sometimes tassels. No. 1 is the grave post, bear 

 ing rude illustrations of the weapons and utensils used by the deceased 



Fig. 149. 



VILLAGE AND BURIAL GROUNDS. 



during life. No. 8 is a grave scaffold, containing the body of an adult. 

 Besides the ornamental appendages, as in No. G preceding, there is a 

 &quot;shaman stick&quot; erected over the box containing the corpse, as a mark 

 of good wishes. 



CONVENTIONALIZING. 



Some examples of decoration are presented herewith, in which there 

 often appears to be solely an attempt at ornamenting the otherwise 

 plain surface of ivory. In others there are evidences of an advance 

 in the graphic representation of objects, in that the originals are no 



