7. “Shaman stick” or grave stick, erected to the memory of a recently deceased person, the cause of which has necessitated the journey of the recorder.
8. Winter habitation. This, together with No. 6, indicates a settlement.
Fig. 56, also drawn by Naumoff, means “ammunition wanted.”
Fig. 56.—Ammunition wanted. Alaska.
When a hunter is tracking game, and exhausts his ammunition, he returns to the nearest and most conspicuous part of the trail and sticks his ihúnŭk in the ground, the top leaning in the direction taken. The ihúnŭk is the pair of sticks arranged like the letter A, used as a gun-rest. This method of transmitting the request to the first passer is resorted to by the greater number of coast natives of Southern Alaska.
Fig. 57, also drawn by Naumoff, means “discovery of bear; assistance wanted.”
Fig. 57.—Assistance wanted in hunt. Alaska.