362 THE POINT BARROW ESKIMO. 
lower corner is a whale with two floats attached to him by a harpoon 
line. Above this is an umiak with four men in it approaching another 
whale which has already received one harpoon with its two floats. The 
harpoon which is to be thrust at him may be seen sticking out over the 
bow of the boat. Then come two whales in a line, one heading to the 
left and one to the right. In the left-hand upper corner is a figure 
which may represent a boat, bottom up, on the staging of four posts. 
We did not learn the actual history of this tablet, which was brought 
down for sale with a number of other things. 
Fig. 361 (No. 89473 [1349] from Utkiavwin) is a piece of an old snow- 
shovel edge with freshly incised figures on both faces, which the artist 
Fic. 361.—Hunting score engraved on ivory, obverse and reverse. 
said represented his own record. The figures are all colored with red 
ocher. On the obverse the figures all stand on a roughly drawn ground 
line. At the left is a man pointing his rifle at a bear, which stands on 
its hind legs facing him. Then comes a she bear walking toward the 
left followed by a cub, then two large bears also walking to the left, 
and a she bear in the same attitude, followed by two cubs, one behind 
the other. This was explained by the artist as follows: ‘ These are 
all the bears I have killed. This one alone (pointing to the ‘rampant’ 
Fig. 362.—Hunting score engraved on ivory. 
one) was bad. All the others were good.” We heard at the time of his 
giving the death shot to the last bear as it was charging his comrade, 
who had wounded it with his muzzle-loader. On the reverse, the 
figures are in the same position. The same man points his rifle at a 
string of three wolves. His explanation was: ‘These are the wolves 
] have killed.” 
Fig. 362 (No. 89474 [1534] from Utkiavwin) is newly made, but was 
said to be the record of a man of our acquaintance named Maninolu. 
It is a flat piece of the outside of a walrus tusk 9-7 inches long and 1:8 
wide at the broader end. The figures are incised on one face only, and 
