. Transactions of the Anthropological Society of Washington . e interpretation given in the Aigalu;^amut dialect of the 138 TRANSACTIONS OF THE southern Innuit will explain the character of the pictograph morefully, and serve also to show what a native can learn from a simplerecord. Nu-na-mu-quk aV-l-;fik Place to quarrel ai-ba-li to-qgu-qlu-gu nu-hu (with) one another (one) killed him (the other] 1 (with a) large tcuk nac-qui glu-gu knife took head off i-no-qtclu-gu ga-saha-lik laid him down (buried) Shaman na-bon ca-gu-luk a- •gu-nu-qua-glu-hu stick bird to set (or place) on the top of (upon
. Transactions of the Anthropological Society of Washington . e interpretation given in the Aigalu;^amut dialect of the 138 TRANSACTIONS OF THE southern Innuit will explain the character of the pictograph morefully, and serve also to show what a native can learn from a simplerecord. Nu-na-mu-quk aV-l-;fik Place to quarrel ai-ba-li to-qgu-qlu-gu nu-hu (with) one another (one) killed him (the other] 1 (with a) large tcuk nac-qui glu-gu knife took head off i-no-qtclu-gu ga-saha-lik laid him down (buried) Shaman na-bon ca-gu-luk a- •gu-nu-qua-glu-hu stick bird to set (or place) on the top of (upon) A personal exploit, recording the death of an enemy by an arrowat the hands of the recorder, is given in the accompanying sketch,(Fig. 7,) reproduced from an Eskimo carved implement in the Fig. 7. Innuit carving on ivory. museum of the Alaska Commercial Company. In this instanceneither the absence of the head, nor any other method of showingdeath, as the erection of a grave stick, was necessary, since theweapon which produces that effect was Fig. 8. Ojibwa sketch on bark. Although the Ojibwa usually represent a dead man by draw-ing his totem in an inverted position upon the grave post, an ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 139 animal which has been killed is shown in an ingenious manner inthe accompanying illustration, (Fig. 8,) copied from a bark scrollwhich was obtained from the Indians at Red Lake, Minnesota. A moose was wounded in one of the fore legs, which is shown bythe introduction into that extremity of a small peg of wood. Thiscaused the animal to travel so slowly that it was finally overtakenand shot in the heart with an arrow and killed, as shown by thequill, the shaft of which penetrates the heart. As this method of recording transactions and events upon birch-bark scrolls has been almost, if not entirely, discontinued, it is ofthe utmost importance to visit the various bands of the Ojibwa inorder to collect such examples as may still be preserved withreligi
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