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with stones and grass. They also bear property marks. Figures are 

 also engraved on stick 1. Some of them are reproduced here (fig. 4). 

 No. 1 represents the mountain-goat browsing, No. 2 the blue grouse, 

 No. 3 the pigeon, No. 4 is a man holding a lance in the act of killing 

 a bear. His nose is indicated by two spots ; the black lines in the 



Fig. 4. — Figures engraved on traps. 



(1) Mouatain Goat, 



(2) Grouse. 



(3j Pigeon. 



(4) Bear-hunter. 



body represent the backbone. The position of these lines shows that the 

 body is represented as being turned towards the bear. The two lines 

 near the back of the bear are also the backbone ; the lines 

 from it are the ribs. Its mouth is open. 



Porcupines are hunted during the nighttime. They are not caught 

 in traps, but killed with lances, clubs, or arroMs. It seems that they do 



descending 



