CARVINCiS, ETC. 



400 



S!t741 [Klli;] from Ni 

 ■<s is oriiaiiUMited 1),\ 

 I of the 



Fig. 420 (X 

 long. Tlie ei 



with red ocher. Tlic sluift of 

 human Lead ueatly caivfd from soa|istonc, fast 

 suH'w braid, whicli passes through a, transxcrs 

 round the crosspiece. No. 81)74:3 [I()!»ll. also f 

 senddes the preceding, but is shglitly shorter 

 and has a four-sided shaft. The liead, more 

 over, whicli is made of bone, represents a man, 

 as is shown by the little pits, which indicate the 

 labrets. The cheeks and crown of tlie head are 

 colored slightly red with red ocher. 



The ingenious Yoksa, so often mentioned. 

 made the first image and brought it down for 

 sale. All he could or would tell us about it 

 was that it was " tuuii'ktiip kuni'a," "A kuui'a 

 (jargon for woman) of soapstone." The suc- 

 cessful sale of this first cross encouraged him 

 to make the second, but we saw no others be- 

 fore or after. Other natives who saw these 

 object.s only laughed. The whole may be simply 

 a fanciful doll, perhaps meant for a caricature, 

 the .shaft representing the body, and the cross- 

 piece the outstretched arms. The object is 

 very suggestive of a crucifix, and there is a 

 bare possibility that the maker may have seen 

 something of the sort in the possession of some 

 of tlie eastern natives who have been visited 

 by a missidiiaiy of the Eoman Catholic Church 

 (Fatli.'r I'etitot). 



Under the head of works of art may properly 

 be included No. 89823 [1130], from Utkiavwiu. 

 This is the skelet(m of the jaws of a polar bear, 

 (lit i)tf just back of the nose, neatly sewed up 

 in a ](iece of sealskin with the hair out, so as 

 to leave uncovered only the tips of the .jaw- 

 bones and the canine teeth. This specimen 

 was put up by the same quick-witteil young- 

 native after liis removal from Nuwuk to I'tki 

 avwiii, evidently in imitation of the worlc of 

 lu-eparing specimens of natural history, wliicli 

 he had seen done at the station. For the same 

 reason he dried and carefully preserved in a litth 



a block of w 1 and tied up with sinew a little 



(Cottiis iiuadrieornis), which he had caught at I 

 [11451). 



