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THE POINT BAKKOW ESKIMO. 



■lit, 



)t' sky-bhie glass iulaicl to repre- 

 (if iron pyrites for the right. The flukes 

 and fastened on with a lashing of narrow 

 a vertical hole in the '■small" and round 

 • rtukes themselves have been split across 

 doweled together. This shows that the 



'Pr 



smoothly I'arved and lias a 

 sent tiie left eye and a Lit 

 have been split wholly "If 

 wludelione passin.u thnm;;h 

 theed-eoftlu' Hnk.-s. Tli 

 and appear to liave been 

 owner attaehed eon.siderable value to the object, or he would not have 

 taken the trouble to meiul it when another could have been so easily 

 whittled out. In the middle of the belly is an oWoug cavity, contain- 

 ing something whicli i)robably adds greater power to the charm. What 

 this is can not be seen, as a band of sealskin with the hair shaved off 

 has been sln-unk on round the hinder half of the body and secured by a 

 seam on the right side A double turn of sinew braid is knotted 



round the middle of 

 the body, leaving 

 two ends which are 

 fied together iu a 

 loo J), showing that 

 this object was 

 meant to beattached 

 somewhere about 

 tlu^ person. 



To this class also 

 pi obably belong the 

 1, u MMiUi ..rw.,„.i skins or pieces of 



animals worn as am- 

 cw (if olitainiii.u tlic [lowers of the particular 

 SOS in the stories relatecl iu Kink's Tales and 

 illv saw men wcaiinj; at the belt bunches of 

 <n-' wolveniie. or the niefacariial b,mes of the 

 : of the .mill ov raven • is also a common jiersonal 

 re a small dried lloiimler.' 

 r of these animal amulets to lie worn on tlie 



o7|. troni rtkiaxwin, which was saiil to be 

 ck ill deer linnting. It is a young unbranched 

 (lies loni;. and apparently separated from the 

 the "velvet" skin still adhering, though most 

 ceept at the fi]). A bit of sinew is tied round 



Htkiavwin, is an amulet consisting of the last 



vi-riii..- worn :is amulets at Fury aud Hecla's Strait (second voyage, 



old liy Kink (Tal(!9, etc., ii. 195), when the man who has a gull for 

 s(a b(!causo the gull s(H-ks his prey far out at sea, whUe the one 

 •camo this bird S(«>k3 his prey landward. Such an amuhst as the 





Tradi 

 tlie c 

 wolf.' 



