BONE.
For instances of the use of bone, refer to several Alaska ivory carvings in this paper, e. g., Figure 111, page [192]; Comanche buffalo shoulder blade, Figure 137, page [216]; Hidatsa shoulder blade, page [151]; New Zealand human bone, Figure 34, page [74].
THE LIVING TREE.
An example is to be found in Schoolcraft, IV, p. 253; Pl. 33, Fig. A, where it is stated that Mr. Richard H. Kern furnished a copy of an Indian drawing, which was “found on the trunk of a cottonwood tree in the valley of King’s River, California, and evidently represents the manner of catching different wild animals with the lasso.”
The use of the lasso, and the characters being upon the bark of a living tree, show sufficient reason to believe that this record was of modern workmanship.
WOOD.
The Indians of the Northwest Coast generally employ wood upon which to depict objects of various kinds. These appear to partake of a mythical nature, sometimes becoming absurdly grotesque. Totem posts (Plate LXXXIII, page [199]), boats, boat paddles, the boards constituting the front wall of a house, and masks are among the objects used upon which to display artistic skill.
Ottawa drawings are also found upon pipe-stems made of wood, usually ash. Figure 120, page [204], is an example of this.
Among the Arikara boat paddles are used upon which marks of personal distinction are reproduced, as shown in Figure 80, page [182].