MURDOCH. ] CARVINGS—WHALES, ETC. 405 
but otherwise a very good representation, neatly carved. The flukes 
in particular are especially well done, 
and the flippers are in high relief. 
The eyes, the spiracles, and the out- 
line of the mouth are incised and the 
first blackened. The material is a 
rather poor quality of walrus ivory, 
about half “core.” The specimen 
was made for sale. No. 89327 [991] 
from Nuwitik was also made for sale. 
It is a little whale 1-6 inches long, 
rudely carved in walrus ivory. 
Fig. 411 (No. 56619 |66| from Ut- 
kiavwin) represents a pair of little 
whales, each carved from a walrus 
tooth, which probably served for Big, AU — Pair of Uiblle-tvory, whales. 
buttons or toggles of some sort, though I do not recollect ever seeing 
such objects in use. The belly of each is flat and has in the middle a 
stout lug perforated with a transverse eye, and they are 
tied together by a piece of thong about 14 inches long. 
They are quite well designed and executed, but rather 
Te eRe “stumpy” in outline, with the outline of the mouth and 
stone image of the spiracles incised and blackened, and little round 
Mga ani pits of tooth inlaid for eyes. In the middle of the back 
oe of each was inlaid a small blue glass bead, which still re- 
mains in one of them. They are old and dirty and somewhat chipped 
about the flukes. 
Fig. 412 (No. 89567 [904| from Nuwitk) represents an imaginary 
quadruped 2-5 in- 
ches long, with a Bs ET 
short, thick body and Ae = 
legs, no neck, and a Qe) gee ee oe 
human head, with the ae sa 
eyes and mouth in- 
cised. It is roughly 
carved from light 
gray soapstone, and 
ground pretty 
smooth. This figure 
is not new, and has 
probably connected 
with it some story which we did not succeed in learning. The seller 
called it an “old man.” No. 89332 [994] from Nuwitk, is a fanciful 
monster, 4:2 inches long, carved in ivory. It has a human head with 
the tusks of a walrus, the body, tail, and flippers of a seal, with human 
arms. The hands, each of which has four fingers, clasp some round 
object against the belly. It is not old, but apparently was not made 
Fig. 413.—Ivory carving, seal with fish’s head. 
