ni\TIN(! Sf'OI.M 



am 



pear s\viniiiiiii.ii-. lollowrd by a md.' li-iiif of a man in a kaiak, niran 

 that so many were laiicc'd in the walrr. ( >l licr incidcnls cC the .aciii 

 siou are also sometimes rcpicscntcd. On lliese iccoids the uliale is al 

 ways represented l>y a rude ti^nie nt the fail cnl olV al the "small 

 and otten represented as lianL;in,i;- from a Imii/onlal line. 



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liave ti-nredall .ifthes... Fi- / '.^\* 



.'!(;(• (No. S!)4S7 [|0'J(;| from // 



Nnwuk) is a narrow Hat tablet // 



1 ineli wide, witli a strin- at ll] 



one end to hau-- it ni. l.v. On \ 



nnental | 



i-epr<>sent aetiial scenes, as the 

 tablet is not new. 



'J'he fi,i;ui-es on the obverse 

 faeearecolored with red oelier. 

 At the u]iper end. standing on 



toward the end, is a rudely 

 drawn nmn, holdin- his ri-ht 

 hand upand his left down, with 

 the lingers outspread. At his 

 left stands a boy with b,,th 

 liands down. Thes.. lignres 

 probably r.'present the hnnfer 

 and his son. .lust b.^low th.' 



i 



spear to strike an aninnd whieh is perhaps meant for a reindeei- u ithont 

 lu)rus. Three deer, also without horns, staml \\itli their feet <m one 

 boi'der with their heads toward the ui,]ier end, and on the other border 

 near the other end are two bn.-ks wifh largv aiitleis heading the other 

 way, an<l l^ehind them a man in a kaiak. I'.etween him and the animal 



ereseent m The sl.ny may perhai-sbe lively translate.l as follows: 



"Wlum Ihe nio(Ui was young th.> man and his son kill.'d six reindeer, 

 two of them bucks with large antlers. Om> they sp.Nired on laud, the 

 rest they <-hase.l with the kaiak." 



On the reverse the ligures and bor.ler are colored black with soot. 

 In th<> left hand lower crner is a she bear and her cub h.siding to tin- 

 leli, l.,lloued by a man who is about b. s\un,t an arrow al tln-m. Then 



