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on the breast there are several long hairs adhering to the 

 crest. This idea of covering the carved animal with feathers 

 or hair in imitation of nature is a feature which I have not 

 met with before or seen mentioned as to any Eskimo toy animal. 

 Carved animals of wood have been previously found in 

 Scoresby Sound: Ryder ^) found three figures representing seals, 

 two of them lying on their backs, just as when they are 

 dragged home from the ice by the Eskimo. Further to the 



Fig. 58. Animals carved in ivory. Cape Tobin. Mi. 



north, at Cape Weber, the Nathorst Expedition (Hammer)^) 

 likewise found three figures of animals carved in wood, a polar 

 bear, a seal, and a musk ox, several times larger than the figures 

 found by Amdrup and Ryder; the bear, for instance, measures 

 from snout to tail between 13 and 14 cm. The second German 

 North Pole Expedition^) also found in these regions a few wood 

 carvings of this kind: several of the expeditions, moreover, 

 found carved human figures of wood. It is very significant 



1) Ryder 337, fig. 38. 



'■') Nathorst 348, figs, b, c, d ; Stolpe, PI. 5, fig. 18. 



■^) Koldewey 601, figs. 2 and 3. 



