CARVINGS WH AI,i:s, l/lc • 



but otherwise a very good representation, ncali 

 in particular are especially well done, 

 and the flippers are in liigli relief. 

 The eyes, the spiracles, and the out- 

 line of the mouth are incised and the 

 first blackened. The material is a 

 rather poor quality of walrus ivory, 

 about half "core.'" The specimen 

 was made for sale. Xo. 8!).327 [991) 

 from Nuwuk was also made for sale. 

 It is a little whale 1-G inches long, 

 rudely carved in walrus ivory. 



Fig. 411 (No. 5(J(Jlt) |«<!| from Ut- 

 kiavwin) represents a pair of little 

 whales, each carved from a walrus 

 tooth, which probably served for '"' 



buttons or toggles of some sort, thcmgh 1 do not recoiled c\er seeing 



such objects in use. The belly of each is tlat and has in the middle a 



stout lug i)erforated with a transverse eye, and tliey are 



^^^T^^ tied together by a piece of thong about 14 inches long. 



^•IS^il^V They are quite well designed and executed, but rather 

 ,, ^.^^., _j,^^,_ , "stumpy" in outline, with the outUue of the mouth and 



stone image of the Spiracles iucised and blackened, and little round 



imaginary nni- l,jf j. „f (^o,,^], {^^\.^\^ foj. gyps, Jn the middle of the back 



of ea<'ii was inhiid a small blue glass bead, whicli still re- 

 mains in oncof tlicm. Tlicy arc old and dirty and soincwliat chip])cd 

 al)out the flukes. 



Fig. 412 (No. 89507 (904) from Nuwfik) reiuesents an imaginary 

 quadrui)ed 2-5 in- 

 ches long, with a 

 shoit, thick body and 

 legs, no neck, and a 

 liunian head, with tiic 

 eyes and mouth in- 

 cised. It is roughly 

 carved from light 

 gray soapstone, 

 g r o u n (1 p r e 1 1 y 

 smooth. This figure 

 is not new, and has 

 J) r o V) a b 1 y C( )nnected 

 with it some story whicli 

 calk'd it an "old man." 

 monster. 4-2 iuches l(mg. 



Fig. 413. 



ve did not succ( 

 No. 89332 [994] 

 arved in ivory. 



fill 



the tusks of a walrus, the body, tail, and fl 

 arms. The hands, each of which lias foi 

 object against the belly. It is not old. bi 



C'd in learning. 'I 



from Nuwfik, is ; 



a human head with 



a seal, with human 



s, clas]) some round 



)arentlv was not made 



It ha 



:)pers . 



