MURDOCH. | HUNTING SCORES. 363 
colored with red ocher. The faceis divided lengthwise into two panels 
by a horizontal line. In the upper panel, at the left, is a man facing to 
the right and pointing a gun ata line of three standing deer, facing 
toward the left. Two are bucks and one a doe. Then come two 
bucks, represented without legs, as if swimming in the water, followed 
by a rude figure of a man in a kaiak. Below the line at the left is an 
wniak with five men, and then a row of twelve conventionalized whales’ 
tails, of which all but the first, second, and fifth are joined to the hor- 
izontal line by a short straight line. The record may be freely trans- 
lated as follows: ‘I went out with my gun and killed three large 
reindeer, two bucks and a doe. I also speared two large bucks in the 
water. My whaling crew have taken twelve whales.” The number of 
whales is open to suspicion, as they just fill up the board. 
Fic. 363.—Hunting score engraved on ivory, obverse and reverse. 
Fig. 363 (No. 56517 [121] from Utkiavwin) is a piece of an old snow- 
Shovel edge 4-2 inches long, with a loop of thong at the upper side to 
hang it up by. It is covered on both faces with freshly incised figures, 
colored with red ocher, representing some real or imaginary occurrence. 
The obverse is bordered with a single narrow line. At the left is a 
man standing with arms outstretched supporting himself by two slen- 
der staffs as long as he is. In the middle are three rude figures of 
tents, very high and slender. At the right is a hornless reindeer head- 
ing to the left, with a man standing on its back with his legs straddled 
