MALLERY. ] ALASKAN HABITS. 541 
Fig. 770 represents an Alaskan in the 
water killing a walrus. The illustration 
was obtained from a slab of walrus ivory 
in the museum of the Alaska Commer- 
cial Company of San Francisco. Fig. 770.—Walrus hunting. Alaska. 
The carving, Fig. 771, made of a piece of walrus tusk, was copied 
from the original in the same museum during the summer of 1882. 
Interpretations were verified by Naumoff, a Kadiak half-breed. 
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Fic. 771.—Records carved on ivory. Alaska. 
a is a native whose left hand is resting against the house, while 
the right hangs toward the ground. The character to his right repre- 
sents a “Shaman stick” surmounted by the emblem of a bird, a “good 
spirit,” in memory of some departed friend. It was suggested that the 
erave stick had been erected to the memory of his wife. 
b represents a reindeer, but the special import in this drawing is 
unknown. 
c signifies that one man, the designer, shot and killed another with 
an arrow. 
d denotes that the narrator has made trading expeditions with a 
dog sledge. - 
eis a sailboat, although the elevated paddle signifies that that was 
the manner in which the voyage was best made. 
J, a dog sled, with the animal hitched up for a journey. ‘The radiat- 
ing lines in the upper left hand corner, over the head of the man, are 
the rays of the sun. 
g, asacred lodge. The four figures at the outer corners of the square 
represent the young men placed on guard, armed with bows and arrows, 
to keep away those not members of the band, who are depicted as hold- 
ing a dance. The small square in the center of the lodge represents 
the fireplace. The angular lines extending from the right side of the 
lodge to the vertical partition line show in outline the subterranean 
entrance to the lodge. 
