MURDOCH. ] HUNTING SCORES. 361 
pear swimming, followed by a rude figure of a man in a kaiak, means 
that so many were lanced in the water. Other incidents of the exeur- 
sion are also sometimesrepresented. On these records the whale is al- 
ways represented by a rude figure of the tail cut off at the “ small,” 
and often represented as hanging from a horizontal line. 
We also brought home four engraved pieces of ivory, which are 
nothing else than records of 
real or imaginary scenes. I 
have figured all of these. Fig. 
360 (No. 89487 [1026] from 
Nuwitk) is a narrow flat tablet 
of ivory, 4:8 inches long and 
1 inch wide, with a string at 
one end to hang it up by. On 
each face is an ornamental 
border inclosing a number of 
incised figures, which probably 
represent actual scenes, as the 
tablet is not new. 
The figures on the obverse 
face are colored with red ocher. 
At the upper end. standing on 
a cross line, with his head 
toward the end, is a rudely 
drawn man, holding his right 
hand up and his left down, with 
the fingers outspread. At his 
left stands a boy with both 
hands down. These figures 
probably represent the hunter 
and his son. Just below the 
cross line is @ man raising a 
spear to strike an animal which is perhaps meant for a reindeer without 
horns. Three deer, also without horns, stand with their feet on one 
border with their heads toward the upper end, and on the other border 
near the other end are two bucks with large antlers heading the other 
way, and behind them a man in a kaiak. Between him and the animal 
which the first man is spearing is an object which may represent the 
crescent moon. The story may perhaps be freely translated as follows: 
“ When the moon was young the man and his son killed six reindeer, 
two of them bucks with large antlers. One they speared on land, the 
rest they chased with the kaiak.” 
On the reverse the figures and border are colored black with soot. 
In the left-hand lower corner is a she bear and her cub heading to the 
left, followed by a man who is about to shoot an arrow at them. Then 
come two more bears heading toward the right, and in the right-hand 
Fi. 360.—Hunting score engraved on ivory. 
