. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. GRAPHIC ART OF THE ESKIMOS. 847 Eskimo. The double paddle is so often used in portraying signals on ivory that its representation here will be of interest in showing how accurately the native artist portrays even the tapering form of the blades. iii Fig. 5;!. KAIAK. Fig. 54. KAIAKS. On plate 27 is shown an illustration of a native kaiak model. Several forms of the native ijortrayal of kaiaks are shown in figs. 53 and 54. The first is a simp
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. GRAPHIC ART OF THE ESKIMOS. 847 Eskimo. The double paddle is so often used in portraying signals on ivory that its representation here will be of interest in showing how accurately the native artist portrays even the tapering form of the blades. iii Fig. 5;!. KAIAK. Fig. 54. KAIAKS. On plate 27 is shown an illustration of a native kaiak model. Several forms of the native ijortrayal of kaiaks are shown in figs. 53 and 54. The first is a simple outline and incomplete, and an occupant was evidently intended to be i)ortrayed, as all the remaining portion of the record from which it was selected was complete in every detail. The two illustrations in fig. 54 are less accurate in outline, the latter being a simple group of scratches. The s]^ecimen shown in fig. 55 is very accurately drawn, the hari>oon and seal float being shown upon the kaiak immediately behind the hunters. The representation of large boats used for traveling, hunting, and fishing, for the propulsion of which boat oars and sails may be used, is of such frequent occurrence in the records of the Eskimo, that a reference to the vessel and its actual appearance is deemed apjiropriate. This large skin-covered open boat is in general use by the natives of Greenland and Alaska, as well as by the Aleuts and some Siberian tribes. The vessel is designated as the umiak, by tlie Point Barrow natives, and some of the Aigaluxamiut, of the southern coast, have used this name as well as the term baidarka. Eig. 5G represents a model of an umiak from Utkiavwiii, U. S. IST. M., No. 565G3,' and seems to illustrate the general form so closely followed in the engravings by native artists. The natives sit with the face toward the bow, using the paddle and not an oar. The women are Fig. 55. Fig. 56. MODEL OF UMIAK. said by Egede, in his "Greenland" (p. Il
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