!572 TIIJ'. POINT BAKKdW ESKIMO. 



uiiali's tails, (iiic .Ml caili siile, witli the flukes turned from him. The 

 one oil his left is at laclirii to liis waist l>y a straight line from its upper 

 ciiiiir. At its liuht liaiid an- a uuiiilicrof objci-ts irregularly grouped. 

 At lli<- lop an miiiaii with tivc men towing at a tliree-cornered object, 

 wliicii probaliiv rc])n'sciits a dead wliah': tlicii a smaller umiak con- 

 laiiiiiig li\<' iiifii anil a|(|iarcMtly " last" to a whale, which is spouting. 

 A li'«-ufc al"i\r this, almost oliliti'iatcil. apiicafs to be a small whale. 

 jlclow ail' a laruf sral. tliicc of thr cross- shaprd tigures, four small 

 \\halr>. anil one liuinv so iniicli I'ttari'il that it can not be made out. On 

 Ihc left hand of the ti.uiiic arc twoiiiniaks, and a whale with a line and 

 tloaf atlachcd to him, then four crosses and a large seal in the corner. 

 lU'low are four whales of dirt'ereut sizes, two bears, and a dog or wolf. 



These gorgets appear to have gone out of fashion, as we saw none 

 whicli were not very old, or which appeared to have been used recently. 

 From the nature of the figures upon them, they were probably used in 

 som(> of the ceremonies connected with the whale fishing. Kika'migo 

 may be the "iliviiiitv" who controls the whales and other sea animals.' 



M((!i<iiiiviil cinitriniiicix. — In one of the performances which Capt. 

 Ileieiiileen witnesseil, there stood in the noddle of the floor facing each 

 other, the stiitlcd skins of a fox and a raven. These were mounted on 

 wlialehone springs and moved by strings, so that the fox sprang at the 

 ra\eu and the raven pecked at the fox, while the singing and dancing 

 went on. These animals were never ottered for sale, but they brought 

 over a stuffed fox very cleverly mounted so as to spring at a lemming, 

 wliich by means of strings was made to run in and out of two holes in 

 the board on which the fox was mounted. (No 89893 [1378] from 

 rtkiavwlTi.) We uid'ortunately did not learn the story or myth con- 

 nected witli this repi'csentatiou.^ It was the skin of an Arctic fox in 

 the summer i)elage, with the paws and all the bones removed, and clum- 

 sily stull'ed with rope yarji, not filling out the legs. A stick was thrust 

 into the tail to within about two inches of the tip, so that it was curled 

 u]) over the back. The skin was taken off whole by a single opening 

 near the vent, which was left open, and through which was thrust into 

 tlie body a strip of whalebone 2 inches wide and about J inch thick, 

 which protruded about 4i inches and was rasteiied to the front edge of 

 the hole by tying tlie flap of skin to the whalebone with three or four 

 turns of sinew braid, kept IVoiii slipping by a notch in each edge of the 

 whalelione. 



Tiie fox was attachcii to a piece of the paneling of a ship's bulkhead, 

 -'.) inches long anil 7-r> wide, by bending forward "S-\ inches of the end 

 of the whalebone, and lashing it down parallel to the length of the 

 board with four luiiis of stout thong, kept from slipping by a notcli in 

 eacii edge of the whalebone and running through holes in the board. 



'Tliia vrr.v intiTi'stiii;; apr. iiii, I, „,,-, uniurluiiahlj (lustiDywl by miitlis at tlii^ National Museum 



