. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. GRAPHIC ART OF THE ESKIMOS. 875 -r=.==&l Fig. 96. HUNTEUS AFTER A Fig. 97. HUNTER APPROACHING escape being' shot by the huuter. The animal is placed in an attitude as if backing", the legs drawn so as to project slightly to the front to denote its inability to progress in that direction. The short line in the hand of the middle hunter is an arrow, which is being held toward the one shooting. The figure at the lef
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. GRAPHIC ART OF THE ESKIMOS. 875 -r=.==&l Fig. 96. HUNTEUS AFTER A Fig. 97. HUNTER APPROACHING escape being' shot by the huuter. The animal is placed in an attitude as if backing", the legs drawn so as to project slightly to the front to denote its inability to progress in that direction. The short line in the hand of the middle hunter is an arrow, which is being held toward the one shooting. The figure at the left is quietly obser vii i g the scene, smoking his pipe. A clever and cleanly cut illustra- tion is reproduced in fig. 97, represent ing a hunter in his baidarka, paddhng toward an ice pan upon which is quietly reposing a walrus. All the figures are heavily incised by vertical lines, the ice alone remaining as a hollow outline to indicate its transparent or translucent condition. The illustration of the two sides of a piece of ivory, fig. 98, is from Utkiawifi, in the Point Barrow re- - gion of Alaska, and is described by Mr. Murdoch^ as being a piece of an old snow-shovel edge with freshly incised figures on both faces, which the artist said represented his own record. "-The figures are all colored with red ocher. On the obverse the figures all stand on a roughly drawn ground line. At the left is a man pointing his rifle at a bear, which stands on its hind legs facing him. Then comes a she-bear walk- ing toward the left, followed by a cub, then two large bears also walking to the left, and a she- bear in the same attitude, fol- lowed by two cubs,onebehind the other. This was explained by the artist as follows: 'These are all the bears I have killed. This one alone (pointing to the''rampant'' one) was bad. All the others were good.' We heard at the time of his giving the death shot to the last bear as it was charging his comrade, who had wounded it with his muzzle-loader. O
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