MURnocn.] 



rARVIX( 



The carving is well cxci-utcd ami really seems to \>r ol.l.aliliin 



has evidently been retduchcd in a i^ood many places, li is made 



an irreynhuiy flattened hit (d reiiKh'er anller, .Ml imlies IdUi;-. Idael 



by the weather on the Hat sni laees. and icpieseids an animal w ill 



legs, which appear to lie 



(log's legs, and at each end 



what a]>i)ears to be a ilo<;\s 



head. One of the m i- 



smaller than theoth. i iml 



both have tlie cats in u 



liei; and th.- eyes, nost.d. 



and ontlines <d' tin month 



incised. 



Fig. 417 (No. r)(i-)J() |s-.| 

 from Nuwfik) is ,i fant i 

 fill object made soleh )oi 



the market. It consist's ot tin iinhh < n\(d la id ol -.omi i iini\o 

 rons animal, made ot i\oi\, md _' (. iikIk^ Ion, titled to tin Inoid 

 endof a. flat-pointed wood* n h indh, pi 111 I. d nd IIk h. id w is . dh.l 

 a "dog", but it looks moK like .i lu.ii Small bits ol wood lu ml iid 

 for the eyes, and tlie out liiK ot tht mouth is deeiih iiuised indcoloied 

 with red ocher, ha\ing bitsof wlnteuoij mlaid to lepiestnt tin < mine 

 teeth. The ears, nostiiN. \ibriss,i,aud hans on the mn//le iie in 

 dicated by blackened im isioiis. Theieisau ornamented (ollii lonnd 



the neck, to which is jo 

 the throat, and a soiii 

 between the ears. 



One of the natives at Itkia vwin. in :\lay, ISS:-', conceived the fancy of 

 smoothing ort' the tip of a walrus tusk into the shape of a pyramid, 

 surmoniited by a little conical ca]) and oniamentiug it with incised 

 figures, which he colored with red oeher. It appears to have been 

 purely an individual fancy, as it has no utility, nor are such objects 

 made by the Eskimo elsewhere, as far as I know. Having succeeded 

 in tinding a sale for this object, either he or one of his 



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