406 THE POINT BARROW ESKIMO. 
for the market. It was called a “walrus man;” but we did not learn 
whether it was simply a fancy figure or whether there was any story 
connected with it. 
Fig. 413 (No. 89329 [1101] from Nuwtk) is another monster, 3-9 inches 
long, carved in ivory. It has a fish’s head with large canine teeth, 
and a seal’s body, tail, 
and hind flippers. 
a ee ) The eyes, nostrils, 
i fe 9 oil slits, the outlines 
— fe Pay of the tail, and the 
| Be 73 \* i fs toes, of which there 
oer , 
es Es : are six on each flip- 
Fic. 414.—Ivory carving, ten-legged bear. per, are incised and 
blackened. A row of 
nineteen small round pits, filled with dark colored dirt runs nearly 
straight from the nape to the tail. 
Fig. 414 (No. 89339 | 1099] from Nuwitk) is anewly made ivory figure, 
which is interesting from its resemblance to one of the fabulous animals 
which figure in the Greenland legends. It is 4 inches long and repre- 
sents a long-necked bear with ten legs, an animal which the maker gave 
us to understand had once 
been seen at Point Barrow. 
The resemblance of this ani- 
mal to the “kiliopak” or ‘ kilif- 
vak” of the Greenland stories, 
which is described as “an ani- 
mal with six or even ten feet”! 
is quite striking. 
Fig. 415 (No. 89723 [1084] 
from Nuwtk) is another rep- 
resentation of the giant who 
holds a whale in each hand. 
He was called in this instance 
‘“Kaidasu,” and not “ Kikaémi- 
go.” This image is carved 
from very old pale brown wal- 
rus ivory, and is 2°35 inches 
high. A transverse incised 
line across each cheek from the wing of the nose, indicates the whale- 
man’s tattoo mark of the Hastern fashion. The image is ancient, but is 
mounted in a socket in the middle of a newly made wooden stand, 
which has a broad border of red ocher and a broad streak of the same 
paint along each diameter. 
Fig. 416 (No. 89336 [1369]) is a curious piece of carving, which Nika- 
wdalu said he found in one of the ruined houses on the river Kulugrua. 
Sa 
Fig. 415.—Ivory carving, giant holding whales. 
1 Rink, Tales, ete., p.48. See also same work, passim, among the stories. 
