MURi...™.! ART. nOl 



arc (Ici'oiatr.l only witli (■onv(Miti..nal ]iatt(>nis. ollin' iinplriiinils (,r 



lioi r ivory, .■specially tllosi' iicilaiiiin.i;- to llic rhasr. likr tlir si-al 



(Ira.u's. etc.. already mciitioii.'d, arc tVr(|iicntly carscd into llir sliap.- of 



iii-s of animals- heads usually liav.' the iiioulli, nostrils, cl,'., in.ii.'alrd 

 by l.la<-k.Mi.-(l incisions, and often iiavc small, cdorcd heads, hits <,r 



w 1. or ivory inlaid tor tin- eyes. Wlicn heads arc us.mI, the jicrfora- 



tion of tlu- head is generally made to n^iMCMMit tlic ]in]iil of the cy.-. 

 Beads were also used foi' ornamenrin- dislics and ot hci' w ooden ohjci'ts. 



The harpc blade boxes of \v,,od caived into the shape of I he animal 



to be pursued have been alivady deserih.Ml. Other wooden ohjeets. like 

 the shaftsof lances, and an (i\v>. jiaddlcs. boxes, dishes, the woodwork of 

 .suuwshoes, slcdp-s, umiaks, etc., are frcipnadly painted .Mthcr all over. 



times set olt' with snipes of black lead. The only i-asc in which a ditfer- 

 eut i)i.iiiiuMit is used is that of some arrows from Sitlaru. which, in addi- 

 tion to tlie usual black or red rin-s. hav.' a rather dii,i;y ,i;reen ring 

 round the shaft. This -reen looks as if it mi-ht have been derived fi'om 

 tl .i;reen fun.Lius oi- ;»:/:-». " mentioned liy Dallas in use amon.u tlie an- 

 cient Aleuts.' The red ocher is ajipli.'.! smoothly in a rather thin coat 

 winch looks as if it were always ]iut on in the mauuer observed by 

 (Japt. Ilereiideeii. who saw a man paintiu.ua new sled atUtkiavwih. He 

 licked the freshly scraped wood with his tongue, so as to moisten it 

 with saliva and then rubbed it with a lumii of red ocher. The custom 



ot'paintiug w len objects with red oehei' seemed to be rather more 



common among the •• Xunatanmiuu," from wliom iierliajis the Point 

 Harrow iieoi)le borrowed the fashion, which is not mentioned among the 

 eastern Ivskimo. Noi denskiiild states that red is the favorite color 

 auKUig the natives of I'itlekaJ.' 



The ])ainting of the arrow shatts in many cases cuiiously i-esendiles 

 the marks used by modern archers to distinguisli the ownership of their 

 shafts, and amy have lornuMly served the same purpose. \Ve made no 

 inipiirics about the matter on the spot, and there is no certain evidence 

 in the scries of arrows collected that these aie or are not marks ofown- 

 eiship. Some arrows, apparently the propeity of tlie same man, have 

 diffeicnl marks, while arrows from dilfcrent villages are similarly 

 marked. On examining our s.aies of tift\ arrows from the three villa.ges 

 (lourtceen from Nnwiik. twenty from lUkiavwiM. and sixteen from 

 SJdiru) it will be seen that the conunonest style of ]iainting is to have 

 Ihe'shaft paint..l red from the beginning or mi.ldleof the feathering to 



about one lifth of its lenglh fr the head. Tu enty arrows are marked 



in this \vay— eleven from Nuwnk. belonging to at least two distinct 

 .sets, and nine from I'tkiav win. b.'longing to three sets. >;ine have 



~" iC„n,,il,„Ii„n. t.. N. A. Klhn , v.,L 1. p. ^«. 'Vega, v,.l. :;, p. UD. 



