MURDOCH. ] IMAGES. 395 
has been drawn in very much the same shape. The features are very 
rudely indicated, and a long projecting tusk of bone is inserted at 
each corner of the mouth and glued in with refuse oil. This 
figure is probably meant to represent the ‘man with tusks,” before 
referred to, who figures in several of the legendary fragments which 
we obtained. 
No. 89568 [1108], from Utkiavwin, probably represents the same being. 
It is a mask of soapstone, a piece of an old Jamp, 2-8 inches long, witb 
very characteristic features in low relief, and a pair 
of sharp, projecting, decurved tusks, about 1 inch 
long, which appear to be made of the vibriss:e of 
the walrus. The back of the mask is roughly hol- 
lowed out. No. 89575 [1014], from Nuwitk, is a 
clumsy and carelessly made image of a man, 3-4 
inches long, whittled out of a flat, rough piece of 
soft, white gypsum. The arms are short and clum- 
sy and the legs straddling, and there is a large ellip- 
tical hole through the middle of the body. The 
features are indicated only by digging little cavities 
for the eyes, nostrils, and mouth. This and two 
other images of the same material, a bear equally 
rude, and a very well carved and characteristic be- 
luga, were made by the ingenious young native, 
Yo6ksa, previously mentioned. 
The best bone figure of a man is shown in Fig. 391 
(No. 89353 [1025], from Nuwitk), also newly made. 
This is an image, 5 inches long, of the giant * Kika- 
migo,” previously mentioned, and is a very excellent 
piece of workmanship. The material is rather vas- 
eular compact bone. On the head is a conical 
dancing cap, 1-4 inches high, made of deerskin, with 
the flesh side out, and colored with red ocher, with 
a tuft of wolf hairs, 3 inches Jong, protruding from 
the apex. Around the middle of the cap is a narrow strip of the same 
material frimged on the lower edge with fifteen flat, narrow pendants 
of ivory, made to represent mountain-sheep teeth. To the back of this 
strip is fastened a half-downy feather nearly 4 inches long. A slender 
wooden stick is stuck into the strip behind, so that the tip reaches 
just above the apex of the cap. To a notch in the end of this is tied a 
bit of dressed deerskin, 14 inches long, cut into three strips. 
Fig. 392 (No. 89348 [1127], from Utkiavwin) is an image neatly carved 
from whale’s bone, which may have been meant for an amulet, or pos- 
sibly the handle of a drill cord, as it is not new, and has two oblique 
holes in the middle of the back, which meet so as to form a longitudinal 
channel for a string. The eyes, mouth, and labret holes are incised and 
filled with black dirt. The total length is 3:3 inches. 
IG. 391—Bone image of 
dancer. 
