MURDOCH. ] DOLLS. 381 
edge round the wrists. The boots are rather well made models of the 
regular waterproof boots, 
with soles of white sealskin 
and a band round the top 1 
inch wide of the same mate- 
rial. A short peg projects 
from the top of the forehead. 
A string of stout sinew braid 
about 2 feet long is passed 
through a hole in the middle 
of the body and a knot tied 
in the end in front. Though 
the design is elaborate the 
workmanship is very rude, 
and the clothes seem to be 
made ofoddsand ends. The 
maker perhaps had in mind 
a fabulous man with teeth 
like a walrus, about whom 
we heard some fragmentary 
traditions. 
Fig. 380 (No. 89826 [1358] 
from Utkiavwin) is a clever, 
though somewhat roughly 
made, mechanical doll. It represents a man dressed in deerskins 
sitting with his legs outstretched and holding in his extended left 
hand a drum and in his right a stick, as if beating the drum. 
The arms are of whalebone, and by pressing them he can be made to 
beat the drum. The doll is made of a single piece of wood—a knot with 
two branches, which make the legs. (I learned this from Capt. Heren- 
deen, who saw this doll at the village before it was finished.) The 
height of the sitting figure is 115 inches. 
Fic. 380.—Mechanical doll: drum player. 
Fic. 381.—Mechanical toy; kaiak paddler. 
A still more ingenious mechanical toy which, however, like the pre- 
ceding, was made for sale, is Shown in Fig. 381 (No. 89855 [1351] from 
Utkiaywin). Thisis a man sitting in a kaiak in the attitude of paddling 
