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THE HUDSON BAY ESKIMO. 



The membranes are invariably made of deer skin in the parchment 

 condition and not of tanned skins. The snares or thongs across the 

 heads are finer and have pieces of wood instead of quills as "rattlers." 



The drumstick is a piece of 

 reindeer horn cut as before 

 described; or else, as if to 

 add to the din, a gun-cap 

 box is pierced through from 

 side to side and a few peb- 

 bles or shot placed within. 

 A stick is then inserted in 

 the hole through the box 

 and the whole covered with 

 buckskin to prevent separa 

 tion of the lid and box. This 



Fig. 153.— Rattle, Nenenot , t ^ j.- ■ „ 



makes a distracting noise. 

 Rattles for the children (Fig. 153) nw made of a hoop of wood bent 

 to a circular form and covered with two heads or membranes. Within 

 it are placed a few pebbles or shot, to produce a rattling sound when 



Fin. ll>4.— Target, reindeer, buck. 



the membranes are dry. A cord attached to tlie circumference enables 

 the rattle to be suspended from the tent -pole in front of the child for 

 whose amusement it is intended. Other toys are made for the children. 



Fig. 155.— Target, reindeer, doe, 



but they were not easy for us to obtain. I'l. xliii represents a doll, 

 dressed in a woman's full suit of clothes. The boys amuse themselves 

 by shooting with blunt aiTows at images of reindeer, bucks, does, and 

 fawns, cut out of flat boards stuck up in the snow (Figs. 154, 155). 



