402 THE POINT BARROW ESKIMO. 
The best figure (No. 89330 [999] figured in the Point Barrow Rept. 
Ethnol., Pl. v, Fig.6, from Utkiavwim) is carved from walrus ivory and 
is 43 inches long. It represents a male rough seal, and is exceedingly 
accurate and highly finished. The lower jaw is perforated and a bit of 
sinew thread tied in to represent the drag line. Small red glass beads 
with white centers are inlaid for the eyes. The other three are all of 
bone and represent dead male seals stretched on their backs with the 
drag line in their jaw as they are dragged home. 
No. 56579 [75], Fig. 404), from Utkiavwin, is 5:7 inches long, and 
very smoothly carved from walrus jaw bone, with round bits of wood 
inlaid for the eyes. The proportions are excellent, but the details are 
not strongly brought out. This specimen is a little older than the rest, 
and may have been an amulet for good luck in seal catching. The 
other two are of compact white bone, perhaps that of the reindeer. 
No.*89331 [1143], from Utkiavwin, is 3-4 inches long, and has the 
breast and back flattened and the flippers in high relief. The anus, 
genital opening, and eyes 
are incised, the latter two 
filled in, as usual, with 
black dirt. The drag line 
is of sinew braid and has 
/ an ivory cylinder slipped 
ye over it. 
wl No. 89328 [1167], from 
Utkiavwin, is the poorest 
Na in design. It is 5-6 inches 
3 long and has the neck bent 
Fi, 405.—W hite whale carved from gypsum. ~ up as in dragging. The 
back of a freshly caught 
seal is always somewhat flattened by dragging it over the ice, and 
this flattening is very much exaggerated in this carving by the natural 
shape of the bone. The fore flippers are in high relief, with three 
toes to each flipper, colored round the edge with red ocher. The tips 
of the hind flippers are joined together, and each has only two toes. 
The eyes, genital opening, and the spots on the back and belly are indi- 
sated by shallow round pits colored with red ocher. The drag line is 
a double bit of sinew braid, which has on it two ivory cylinders, one 
ornamented with an incised pattern. 
We found but a single figure of the beluga, which is such a favorite 
subject for Eskimo artists farther south. This is the gypsum carving 
“already mentioned (No, 89573 [1015], Fig. 405, from Nuwttk). It is 3-5 
inches long and is very characteristic, though rather short in proportion 
to its girth. It was neatly carved with a knife. 
The “bow-head” whale (Baleena mysticetus), is a very favorite sub- 
ject, appearing often as a decoration and represented by 21 carvings. 
Three of these are of wood, very much resembling in design and exe- 
cution the harpoon boxes already described. They are all very old, and 
