. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. GRAPHIC ART OP THE ESKIMOS. 779 elevated and the other apparently so curved as to pretend to touch himself, indicatiu<;'that he is contemplating something or has performed some deed; the third space contains the conventional figure of a whale's tail to indicate that animal, and in the remaining space, at the bottom, is a whale with what appears to denote a float attached to a harpoon line. The other side of the tablet, that bearing the c
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. GRAPHIC ART OP THE ESKIMOS. 779 elevated and the other apparently so curved as to pretend to touch himself, indicatiu<;'that he is contemplating something or has performed some deed; the third space contains the conventional figure of a whale's tail to indicate that animal, and in the remaining space, at the bottom, is a whale with what appears to denote a float attached to a harpoon line. The other side of the tablet, that bearing the cord, has in the left- hand space an animal probably intended to denote a wolf; the upper panel has within it a deer, the horns being turned back, whereas to denote the reindeer they would be turned forward; the uext, like the first, appears to be a wolf, while the fourth has two animals seated upon tbeir haunches, facing one another, after the manner of dogs, although they appear- to closely resemble the first and third, which are believed to denote wolves, as before ¥\g. 3. DAN(UNG GORGET OF WOOD; FROM POINT Au old and weatherworn mask from Point Barrow is shown in fig. 2. It is made of spruce wood, and measures 7i inches in length, it is peculiar in having the outer corners of the eyes somewhat depressed, and in addition to the mustache and imperial has a broad "whaleman's mask " drawn with black lead across the eyes. ^fr. Murdoch' says of the specimen that "this mask has been for a long time fastened to au ornamented wooden gorget, and appeared to liave been exposed to the weather, perhaps at a cemetery. The string- is made of unusually stout sinew ; A decorated gorget is shown in tig. 3. It is from Point Barrow, and Mr. Murdoch' describes it thus: It is made of spruce, is inches loug, aud has two beckets of stout sinew braid, one to go round the ueck and the other round the body under the wearer's arms. ' Ninth Annual Report
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