MURDOCH. ] CARVINGS. 407 
The carving is well executed and really seems to be old, although it 
has evidently been retouched in a good many places. It is made from 
an irregularly flattened bit of reindeer antler, 3-6 inches long, blackened 
by the weather on the flat surfaces, and represents an animal with four 
legs, which appear to be 
dog’s legs, and at each end 
what appears to be a dog’s 
head. One of these is 
smaller than the other and 
both have the ears in re- 
lief, and the eyes, nostrils, 
and outlines of the mouth 
incised. 
Fig. 417 (No. 56520 [85] 
from Nuwittk) is a fanci- 
ful object made solely for 
the market. It consists of the rudely carved head of some carnivo- 
rous animal, made of ivory, and 2-6 inches long, fitted to the broad 
end of a flat-pointed wooden handle, painted red. The head was called 
a “dog”, but it looks more like a bear. Small bits of wood are inlaid 
for the eyes, and the outline of the mouth is deeply incised and colored 
with red ocher, having bits of white ivory inlaid to represent the canine 
teeth. The ears, nostrils, vibrisse, and hairs on the muzzle are in- 
dicated by blackeved incisions. There is an ornamented collar round 
Fig. 416.—Double-headed animal, carved from antler. 
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the neck, to which is joined a conventional pattern of triangular form on 
the throat, and a somewhat similar pattern on the top of the head 
between the ears. 
One of the natives at Utkiavwin, in May, 1882, conceived the fancy of 
smoothing off the tip of a walrus tusk into the shape of a pyramid, 
surmounted by a little conical cap and ornamenting it with incised 
figures, which he colored with red ocher. It appears to have been 
purely an individual fancy, as it has no utility, nor are such objects 
made by the Eskimo elsewhere, as far as [ know. Having succeeded 
in finding a sale for this object, either he or one of his friends, I do not 
