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miun,” unless, possibly, a southern kaiak had passed through the hands 
of enough people to reach a point where some Point Barrow native 
might see it. As far as we know no Point Barrow natives visit the 
regions where this form is used, and the model seems too accurate to 
have been made from a description. 
Juvenile implements.—We sometimes saw the children playing with 
little models of the implements and utensils used by their parents. 
Perhaps the commonest thing of this sort is the boy’s bow. As soon 
as a boy is able to walk his father makes him a little bow suited to 
his strength, with blunt arrows, with which he plays with the other 
boys, shooting at marks—for instance, the fetal reindeer brought home 
from the spring hunt—till he is old enough to shoot small birds and 
lemmings. We also saw children playing with little drums, and one 
man made his little boy an elaborate ka/moti about 4 feet long. In the 
collection are a number of miniature implements, spears, ete., some of 
which have been already described, which were perhaps intended as 
playthings for the children. As, however, they were all newly made, 
it is possible that they were merely intended to catch the fancy of the 
strangers. 
No. 89451 [1115], from Nuwitk, is a little snow shovel 4:5 inches long, 
with a blade 2-1 inches wide, rather roughly carved from a piece of wal- 
rus ivory. 
No, 89695 [1280] from Utkiavwin, is a similar model of a deer lance, 
7 inches long, all in one piece and made of reindeer antler. 
No. 89797 [1186] from Utkiavwin, is a quite well made model of the 
drum used for accompanying singing and dancing, and is almost large 
enough to have been used for a plaything. The stick is entirely out of 
proportion, being merely a roughly whittled bit of lath, 15 inches long. 
Games and sports—The men have very few sports, though I have 
sometimes known them to amuse themselves by shooting at a mark 
with their rifles, and I once heard of a number of them wrestling. 
As far as I could learn, they wrestle “ catch-as-cateh-can” without 
any particular system. We never heard of anything like the athletic 
sports mentioned by Egede! and Crantz? or the pugilism described 
by Schwatka among the people of King William’s Land, when two men 
stand up to each other and exchange buffets till one or the other gives 
in.’ The women are very fond of playing “cat’s cradle” whenever 
they have leisure, and make a number of complicated figures with the 
string, many of which represent various animals. One favorite figure 
is a very clever representation of a reindeer, which is made by moving 
the fingers to run down hill from one hand to the other? Another 
favorite amusement with the women and children is tossing three bullets 
or small pebbles with the right hand, after the manner of a juggler, 
' Greenland, p. 162. 
2 Volos penile 
3 Science, vol. 4, No. 98, p. 545. 
4 Hall (Arctic Researches, p. 129) says the ‘cat's cradle’ is a favorite amusement in Baffin Land, 
where they make many figures, including representations of the deer, whale, seal, and walrus. 
