. Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . ART. 259 was a violin of tbeir own manufactiue, made, of courtse, in imitation of those they had seen used by the whites. Its form is sufficiently well shown hy the ttguie (Fig. 82), and is made of birch or spruce, and the two strings are of coarse, loosely twisted sinew. The bow has a strip of whalebone iu place of horsehair, and is resined with spruce gum. This tiddle is held aiaoss the lap when jdayed. The old woman of whom 1 procured the instrument was able tt) play several airs—siuh as they sing a
. Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . ART. 259 was a violin of tbeir own manufactiue, made, of courtse, in imitation of those they had seen used by the whites. Its form is sufficiently well shown hy the ttguie (Fig. 82), and is made of birch or spruce, and the two strings are of coarse, loosely twisted sinew. The bow has a strip of whalebone iu place of horsehair, and is resined with spruce gum. This tiddle is held aiaoss the lap when jdayed. The old woman of whom 1 procured the instrument was able tt) play several airs—siuh as they sing among themselves. I was sur-/Lji?^ C ^^ P^*^*^^ ^ ^^® facilityf-^m W^ ^^^^^ with which she ff\:^WKuS the various notes on such a crude imitation of a Art is but slightly developed among these people. Their weapons and other implements are never adorned with carvings of animals and other natural ob jects or with conven-tional patterns, as isthe case iu so great a degree among the Eskimo of Alaska. They are,however, not devoid of artistic skill, as is showai by the good taste Fig. doll,woman.
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