. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. GRAPHIC ART OF THE ESKIMOS. 877 ]\Ir. Murdoch says: The Hgnrcs on th(> obverse face are colored with red ocher. At the upper end, standing on a cross line, with his head toward the end, is a rudely drawn man holding his right hand up and his left down, with the fingers outspread. At his left stands a boy with both hands down. These figures probably represent the hunter and his son. Just below the cross line is a man raising a spear to st
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. GRAPHIC ART OF THE ESKIMOS. 877 ]\Ir. Murdoch says: The Hgnrcs on th(> obverse face are colored with red ocher. At the upper end, standing on a cross line, with his head toward the end, is a rudely drawn man holding his right hand up and his left down, with the fingers outspread. At his left stands a boy with both hands down. These figures probably represent the hunter and his son. Just below the cross line is a man raising a spear to strike an animal which is perhaps meant for a reindeer without horns. Three deer, also without horns, stand with their feet on one border with their heads toward the upper end, and on the other border near the end are two T)ucks with large antlers heading the other way, and behind them a man in a kaiak. Between him and the animal which the first man is spearing is an object which , '"'^.i • may represent the crescent moon. The story maj^ perhaps be '-''^ ^'- freely translated as follows: ''When the moon was young, the man and his son killed six reindeer, two of them bucks —^ with large antlers. One they speared on land, the rest they chase I with the ; On the reverse the figures and tlie border are colored black with soot. In the left-hand lower row is a she bear and her cub heading to the left, follow^ed by a man who is about to shoot an arrow at them. Then come two more bears heading toward the right, and in the right-hand lower corner is a whale with two floats attached to him by a harpoon line. Above this is an umiak with four men in it approaching another wliale which has already received one harpoon with its two floats. The harpoon which is to be thrust at him may be seen sticking out over the bow of the boat. Then come two whales in a line, one heading to the left and one to the right. In the left-hand upper corner is a figure which may represent a boat
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