NELSON] TOY IMAGES—-SNOW KNIVES 345 
The girls frequently have a number of dolls varying in size, the 
smaller ones being made so that they will stand upright. While making 
a brief visit to Sledge island, two little girls in the house where we 
stopped amused us by watching their opportunity, while we were busy 
about other things, to place their dolls standing in a semicircle before 
us upon the floor, while they sat quietly behind as though permitting 
their dolls to take a look at the strangers. In connection with these 
toys girls have also a complete outfit of toy bedding made from the 
skins of mice or lemmings, small grass mats, toy boots, mittens, aud 
clothing, all patterned after those used 
by the people of the locality. 
Other favorite toys of the children 
of both sexes are snow knives, which 
are from four to fifteen inches long 
and are made of ivory, bone, or wood, 
the two first-named materials being 
most commonly used. They are small 
at the handle and expand toward 
the end, usually curving upward and sometimes to one side. The mak- 
ers frequently show great artistic skill in these objects; the handle 
- is often tipped with a carving representing the head of a salmon, gull, 
seal, or other animal; the grip of the handle is insured by various pro- 
jections, which sometimes consist of a series of three or more rounded 
bosses pierced by a small hole in the middle, as in figure 2, plate xcrv, 
from the lower Yukon. This specimen is well carved from a piece of bone. 
Figure 3, plate xory, represents a large, handsomely made ivory 
knife from Konigunugumut; the raven totem mark is etched on each 
side; three projecting 
knobs on the handle 
are pierced and the 
holes plugged with 
wood. Another speci- 
FG, 132—Toy dogs and sled (about 3). men, from Chalitmut 
(figure 4, plate xcrv), 
is made of ivory and has four murre heads in relief on the handle; 
the surface is ornamented with etched lines. An ivory knife from 
Ikogimut (figure 7, plate xcrv) has two long, rounded projections extend- 
ing forward from the butt. 
A large, handsomely made ivory knife from Konigunugumut (figure 1, 
plate xcrv) has on the under side of the handle five rounded projections 
which are pierced for the insertion of plugs of wood; the raven totem 
sign is etched on both sides. Figure 5, plate xcrvy, illustrates an ivory 
knife from Cape Vancouver, heavily etched on both sides; on the handle 
are three sets of concentric circles, pierced in the center and with 
wooden plugs inserted in the holes. A deerhorn knife from Kushunuk, 
represented in figure 9, plate xcry, has a long slit in the handle, in 
Fic. 131—Toy bear with dog harness (4). 
