380 THE POINT BARROW ESKIMO. 
Dolls.—Though several dolls and various suits of miniature clothing 
were made and brought over for sale, they do not appear to be popular 
with the little girls. I do not recollect ever seeing a child playing with 
a doll. Those in the collection, indeed, seem rather less intended for 
playthings than as, so to speak, works of art to catch the fancy of the 
strangers. Such an object is No. 89728 [1304] (Fig. 379 from Utkiavwin.) 
This is a human head carved out of pine wood, and shouldered off at 
the neck into a stout round peg, which is fitted into the middle of a 
thick elliptical pedestal of the same wood, flat on the bottom and con- 
vex on top. The head is dressed 
\ in a neatly made hood of thin 
i deerskin with the flesh side cut 
off round the shoulders and ex- 
posing only the face. The face 
is very neatly carved, and has 
bits of green oxidized copper 
inlaid for the eyes. The cheeks, 
gums, and inside of the mouth 
are colored with red ocher, and 
the hair, eyebrows, and beard 
with black lead. The top of the 
pedestal is painted red and di- 
vided into eight equal parts by 
shallow grooves colored with 
black lead. The height of the 
whole object is 44 inches, and 
the workmanship is remarkably 
good. 
No. 89827 [1138] (from Utkiay- 
win), on the other hand, is very 
Fig. 379.—Carving of human head. roughly and carelessly made. It 
is 18-2 inches long, roughly whit- 
tled out of a flat piece of redwood board into the shape of a man with his 
legs wide apart and holding up his hands on each side of his head. The 
arms are very short and broad, with five fingers all nearly of the same 
length, and the legs are simply two straight four-sided pegs rounded on 
the edges. It is dressed in a hooded frock of seal gut reaching to the 
knees and leaving only the face and hands uncovered, and has sealskin 
knee boots on the legs. The face is rudely in relief, with two narrow bits 
of ivory inlaid for eyes, and a long canine tusk of the same material 
inserted in each corner of the mouth. Three small round bits of wood 
are inlaid in the forehead, one in the middle and one over each eye, and 
one in the right cheek above the corner of the mouth. The gut frock 
is carelessly made of irregular pieces. It is trimmed round the bottom 
and the edge of the hood with a strip of dogskin, but is left with a raw 
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