382 THE POINT BARROW ESKIMO. 
on the left side with a single-bladed paddle. His arms are of whale- 
bone, and by means of strings he can be made to paddle and turn his 
head from side to side. The kaiak is 29 inches long, very neatly carved 
from a single block of wood, and solid except at the cockpit. The bot- 
tom is flat, to allow it to stand on the floor, but it is otherwise precisely 
of the model of the kaiaks in the Museum from the Mackenzie and 
Anderson region. The nation who made it called it a “ Ktinmi/dlin” 
kaiak. It is painted all over with red ocher, except on the bottom. The 
figure has no legs and fits into the cockpit, which is without any coam- 
ing. The head is separate and mounted on a long, slender pivot, which 
is fitted into a hole in the neck just loosely enough to allow it to turn 
easily. It is dressed in a hood of seal gut. The face is very natural, 
though rather rudely carved, and is lightly colored all over with red 
ocher, with the mouth painted deeply red, and the eyebrows, eyes, nos- 
trils, and beard marked with black lead. The arms are narrow strips 
of whalebone, the ends of which protrude at the wrists, and are tied to 
the paddle by the ends of the strings which work it. The body is coy- 
ered with a gut shirt. 
The paddle is of the common shape, and has the blade and the lower 
end of the shaft painted red. The strings for working this contrivance 
are of fine sinew braid. One string is tied into alittle hole in the edge 
of the hood, where the left ear would be, the other passes round the 
Fig, 382.—Kaiak carved from a block of wood. 
edge of the hood, and is tied at the right ear. These strings cross back 
of the head, and pass through two neat little ivory eyebolts inserted 
in the deck, 1 inch abaft the cockpit, and 1 inch apart. The strings 
from the hands are not crossed, but pass through two similar eyebolts, 
one at each edge of the deck, 2-5 inches from the cockpit. The ends of 
cach set of strings are tied together. When the right pair and left 
pair of strings are pulled alternately, the man makes a stroke and looks 
to the right, then “recovers” and looks to the left. Both stroke and 
“recovery” are aided by the elasticity of the arms. This specimen 
shows a great deal of mechanical ingenuity, and was the only finished 
object of the kind seen. 
Fig. 382 (No. 89856 [783] from Utkiavwin) is a kaiak intended for a 
similar toy, which, when brought over for sale, had an unfinished arm- 
less doll in the cockpit. This was, unfortunately, lost in unpacking. 
The kaiak, which is 27-6 inches long, is not new, but has been freshly 
seraped and painted on deck. It is also a foreign kaiak, being precisely 
like a model brought by Mr. Nelson from Norton Sound. It is not un- 
likely that this boat itself came from that region through the “ Nunatan- 
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