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ASSOCIATIONS DAILY LIFE AND HABITS. 



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The signification of the whole is that two members of the Bear gens, 

 three members of the Beaver gens, and three members of the Eagle 

 geus have united and constitute a society living in one lodge, around 

 one fire, and smoke through the same pipe. 



DAILY LIFE AND HABITS. 



Examples of daily life and habits are given in Figures 121 and 122 : 

 Figure 121 represents an Alaskan native in the water killing a wal- 

 rus. The illustration was obtained from a slab of walrus ivory in the 

 museum of the Alaska Commercial Com- 

 pany, of San Francisco, California, and 

 interpreted by a native. 



The carving, Figure 122, made of a 

 piece of walrus tusk, was copied from 

 the original in the museum of the Alaska 

 Commercial Company, San Francisco," 



California, during the summer of 1882. Interpretations were verified 

 by Naumoff, a Kadiak half-breed, in San Francisco at the time. The 

 special purport of some of the characters and etchings is not apparent. 



Fig. 121.— Walrus lumtor. Alaska. 



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Fig. 122. — Ivory carving with records. Ala- ka. 



In No. 1 is a native whose left hand is resting against the house, 

 while the right hangs toward the ground. The character to his right 

 represents a ''Shaman stick" surmounted by the emblem of a bird, a 

 '•good spirit," in memory of some departed friend. It was suggested 

 that the grave stick had been erected to the memory of his wife. 



No. 2. Represents a reindeer, but the special import in this drawing- 

 is unknown. 



No. 3. Signifies that one man, the recorder, shot and killed another 

 with an arrow. 



