. Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . Fio. 78 Eskimo doll. 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 sever
. Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . Fio. 78 Eskimo doll. 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 violin.
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