Perhaps the commonest thing of this sort is the boy's bow. As soon 

 a.s a boy is able to walk his father makes him a little bow suited to 

 his strength, with blunt arrows, with whiili he plays witli the other 

 boys, shooting at marks — for iustauee, the fetal reiiah'er biouj;lit home 

 from the spring hunt — till he is old enougii to shoot small hiids and 

 lemmings. We also saw children playing with little drums, and one 

 man made his little boy an elaborate ka'moti about i feet long. In the 

 collection are a number of miniature implements, spears, etc., some of 

 which have been already' described, which were perhai)s intended as 

 playthings for the children. As, however, they were all n(>wl.\ made. 

 it is possible that they were merely intended to catcli the fancy of the 

 strangei's. 



No. S<»-1.-)] [1113], from Nnwnk, is a little sm.w shovel t-.", inches long, 

 with a blade I'-l inches wide, rattier roughly <-arved from a piece of wal- 

 rus ivory. 



No. 89(i95 [ll'.SO] from Dtkiavwii-|. is a simihir model of a deer lance. 

 7 inclies long, all in one piece and made of reindeer antler. 



No. 80797 [1180] from UtkiavwiiT, is a (piite well made model of the 

 drum used for aecomiiaiiying singing and dancing, and is almost large 

 enough to have been used for a plaything. The stick is entirely out of 

 proportion, being merely a loughly whittled bit of lath, 13 inches long. 



Games and spurts. — The men have very few sjiorts, though 1 have 

 .sometimes known tiiem to anuise themselves by shooting at a mark 

 with their rilles, and I once heard of a iiumbei- of them wrestling. 

 As far as 1 <-ould leaiii. they wrestle •• cal<-h-as-cat<'h-can " without 

 any particular system. We never heard of anything like the alldetic 

 .s])orts mentioned l>y Ivgi^le' and Crantz- or the pugilism desciihed 

 by Schwatka among the peo]ile of King William's Land, when two men 

 staml np to .•adi oth.'r and exchange butfets till one or the other gives 

 in.' The women aiv very fond of playing •• cat's cradle " wh.Miever 

 they liave leisure, and make a number of complicated tigures with the 

 string, many of which rei>resent varhms animals. One favorite figure 

 is a very clever repiesentation of a reindeer, which is made liy moving 

 the lingers to run down hill from one hand to the other.' '.Vnotlier 

 favorite amusement with the women and children istos.siug three bullets 

 or small pebbles with the right hand, after the manner of a juggler. 



'Scii-IlCf, vol. 4, No. 9fl, p. r.4.i. 



' Hall (Arctic I;cs(tarili<-s. p. rjO) s.iys tlio •' cat's cradle 

 where thoy make many ligiues, iucUicling representations 



