cuLIN] BUZZ: ESKIMO (383 
Eskimo (Ira). Smith sound, Greenland. (Cat. no. $2, American 
Museum of Natural History.) 
A flat bone in the shape of an hourglass or figure 8, with a looped 
string passing through two holes in its middle, described by Dr 
A. L. Kroeber under the name of hieqtaq, or bull-roarer. 
Eskimo (Western). Wainwright inlet, Utkiavi, Alaska. (Cat. 
no. 89722, United States National Museum.) 
Board of pine wood ( figure 1014), 34 inches long and 24 inches wide, 
with two round holes in the middle, through which is passed 
a piece of stout sinew braid, the ends of which are knotted 
together. 
Fig. 1014. Buzz; length, 3} inches: Western Eskimo, Wainwright inlet, Alaska; cat. no. 89722, 
United States National Museum. 
Collected by Mr John Murdoch,* whe describes it as follows: 
When the board is placed in the middle of the string it can be made to spin 
around and whiz by alternately pulling and relaxing the ends of the string. 
The board is rather elaborately painted. One end has a border of black lead 
on both faces, the other a similar border of red paint, which appears to be 
red lead. Broad red bands form a square 1 inch across around the holes, 
with lines radiating from each corner to the corners of the board, on both faces. 
On the space between these lines are figures rudely drawn with black lead. On 
one face, in the first space, is a goose; in the second, a man with a staff; ja 
the third, the conventional figure of a whale’s tail; and in the fourth, a whale, 
with line and float attached to him, pursued by a whaling umiak. On the other 
side, the first space contains a dog or wolf walking; the second, two of these 
animals, sitting on their haunches, facing each other; the third, another walking; 
and the fourth, a reindeer in the same attitude. 
«The Point Barrow Eskimo. Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, p. 378, 
1892. 
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