3S2 TllE POINT liARROW ESKIMO. 



t)ii till' left side with ;i single-bladcd paddle. His iirni.s are of whale- 

 bone, and by means of strings lie can be made to paddle and turn bis 

 head from side to side. The kaiak is 2!> inehes long, very neatly carved 

 from a single block of wood, and solid except at the cockpit. The bot- 

 tom is Hat, to allow it to stand on the floor, but it is otherwise precisely 

 of the model of the kaiaks iu the Museum from the Mackenzie and 

 Anderson region. The nation who made it called it a "Kunmu'd'Hn" 

 kaiak. It is ))ainted all over with red ocher, except on the bottom. The 

 figure has no legs and fits into the cockpit, which is without any coam- 

 ing. The head is sei)arate and mounted on a long, slender pivot, which 

 is titled into a hole in the neck just loosely enough to allow it to turn 

 easil.N . It is dressed in a hood of seal gut. The face is very natural, 

 tiioimii latlier rudely carved, and is lightly colored all over with red 

 oilier, with tlie mouth painted deejily red, and the eyebrows, eyes, nos- 

 trils, and beard marked with black lead. The arms are narrow strips 

 of whaleliouf, the ends of which imitrude at the wrists, and are tied to 

 the paddle by the ends of the strings wliieh work it. The body is cov- 

 ered witii a gut sliirt. 



Tiie iiaddle is of the ((muiiou shape, and has the blade and the lower 

 end of the shaft painted red. The strings for working this contrivance 

 are of fine sinew braid. One string is tied into a little hole in the edge 

 of the hood, where the left ear would be, the other passes round the 



edge of the 1 d, and is tied at the right ear. These strings cross back 



cf the head, and pass through two neat little ivory eyebolts inserted 

 in tliede<k, I ineli abalt the cockpit, and 1 inch ai)art. The strings 

 from the hands are not crossed, but pass tlirongli two similar eyebolts, 

 one at each edge of the d.'ck. L'-:. inches from tlie cockpit. The ends of 

 each set nf strings are tied togcthei-. Wlien the right pair and left 

 pair of strings are ]iiilled alternately, the man makes a. stroke and h)oks 

 to the right, tlicn ••rec,.vers" and looks to the lelt. Both stroke and 

 ■•recovery" are aided by the <-lasticily of the arms. This specimen 

 shows a great deal of mechanical ingenuity, and was the only fini.shed 

 object of the kind seen. 



Fig. .•isii (X,,. siis.-.d |7s;;] from Ctkiavwin) is a kaiak intended for a 

 similar toy. which. « hen brought over for sale, had an unfinished arm- 

 less doll in tlie cockpit. 'I'his was. unfoi'tunately, lost in unpacking. 

 The kaiak. which is L'T-t; inches long, is not new, but has been freshly 

 scrajied and painted on .lei'k. It is also a foreign kaiak, being iirei-isely 

 like a model brought by Mr. Ncls.m fnun Xorton Sound. It is not un- 

 likely that thisl,„at itself came fidin that region through the •■Nunataii- 



