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| [Pl. I.] | Map of Northwestern Alaska | 2 |
| [II.] | Map of the hunting grounds of the Point Barrow Eskimo | 18 |
| [Fig. 1.] | Unalina, a man of Nuwŭk | 34 |
| [2.] | Mûmûñina, a woman of Nuwŭk | 35 |
| [3.] | Akabiana, a youth of Utkiavwiñ | 36 |
| [4.] | Puka, a young man of Utkiavwiñ | 37 |
| [5.] | Woman stretching skins | 38 |
| [6.] | Pipes: (a) pipe with metal bowl; (b) pipe with stone bowl; (c) pipe with bowl of antler or ivory | 67 |
| [7.] | Pipe made of willow stick | 68 |
| [8.] | Tobacco pouches | 69 |
| [9.] | Plans of Eskimo winter house | 72 |
| [10.] | Interior of iglu, looking toward door | 73 |
| [11.] | Interior of iglu, looking toward bench | 74 |
| [12.] | House in Utkiavwiñ | 76 |
| [13.] | Ground plan and section of winter house in Mackenzie region | 77 |
| [14.] | Ground plan of large snow house | 82 |
| [15.] | Tent on the beach at Utkiavwiñ | 85 |
| [16.] | Wooden bucket | 86 |
| [17.] | Large tub | 87 |
| [18.] | Whalebone dish | 88 |
| [19.] | Meat-bowl | 89 |
| [20.] | Stone pot | 90 |
| [21.] | Small stone pot | 91 |
| [22.] | Fragments of pottery | 92 |
| [23.] | Stone maul | 94 |
| [24.] | Stone maul | 94 |
| [25.] | Stone maul | 95 |
| [26.] | Stone maul | 95 |
| [27.] | Stone maul | 96 |
| [28.] | Stone maul | 96 |
| [29.] | Bone maul | 97 |
| [30.] | Bone maul | 97 |
| [31.] | Bone maul | 98 |
| [32.] | Bone maul | 98 |
| [33.] | Meat-dish | 99 |
| [34.] | Oblong meat-dish | 100 |
| [35.] | Oblong meat-dish, very old | 100 |
| [36.] | Fish dish | 100 |
| [37.] | Whalebone cup | 101 |
| [38.] | Horn dipper | 101 |
| [39.] | Horn dipper | 102 |
| [40.] | Dipper of fossil ivory | 103 |
| [41.] | Dipper of fossil ivory | 103 |
| [42.] | Wooden spoon | 104 |
| [43.] | Horn ladle | 104 |
| [44.] | Bone ladle | 104 |
| [45.] | Bone ladle in the form of a whale | 105 |
| [46.] | Bone ladle | 105 |
| [47.] | Stone house-lamp | 106 |
| [48.] | Sandstone lamp | 107 |
| [49.] | Traveling lamp | 108 |
| [50.] | Socket for blubber holder | 108 |
| [51.] | Man in ordinary deerskin clothes | 110 |
| [52.] | Woman’s hood | 111 |
| [53.] | Man’s frock | 113 |
| [54.] | Pattern of man’s deerskin frock | 113 |
| [55.] | Detail of trimming, skirt and shoulder of man’s frock | 114 |
| [56.] | Man wearing plain, heavy frock | 114 |
| [57.] | Man’s frock of mountain sheepskin, front and back | 115 |
| [58.] | Man’s frock of ermine skins | 116 |
| [59.] | Pattern of sheepskin frock | 117 |
| [60.] | Pattern of ermine frock | 117 |
| [61.] | Woman’s frock, front and back | 118 |
| [62.] | Pattern of woman’s frock | 119 |
| [63.] | Detail of edging, woman’s frock | 119 |
| [64.] | Details of trimming, woman’s frock | 119 |
| [65.] | Man’s cloak of deerskin | 121 |
| [66.] | Pattern of man’s cloak | 121 |
| [67.] | Deerskin mittens | 123 |
| [68.] | Deerskin gloves | 124 |
| [69.] | Man’s breeches of deerskin | 125 |
| [70.] | Pattern of man’s breeches | 126 |
| [71.] | Trimming of man’s breeches | 126 |
| [72.] | Woman’s pantaloons | 127 |
| [73.] | Patterns of woman’s pantaloons | 128 |
| [74.] | Pattern of stocking | 129 |
| [75.] | Man’s boot of deerskin | 131 |
| [76.] | Pattern of deerskin boot | 131 |
| [77.] | Man’s dress boot of deerskin | 132 |
| [78.] | Pattern of man’s dress boot of deerskin | 132 |
| [79.] | Man’s dress boot of skin of mountain sheep | 133 |
| [80.] | Pair of man’s dress boots of deerskin | 134 |
| [81.] | Woman’s waterproof sealskin boot | 135 |
| [82.] | Sketch of “ice-creepers” on boot sole | 135 |
| [83.] | Man’s belt woven of feathers | 136 |
| [84.] | Diagram showing method of fastening the ends of feathers in belt | 137 |
| [85.] | Woman’s belt of wolverine toes | 137 |
| [86.] | Belt-fastener | 138 |
| [87.] | Man with tattooed cheeks | 139 |
| [88.] | Woman with ordinary tattooing | 140 |
| [89.] | Man’s method of wearing the hair | 141 |
| [90.] | Earrings | 143 |
| [91.] | Plug for enlarging labret hole | 144 |
| [92.] | Labret of beads and ivory | 145 |
| [93.] | Blue and white labret from Anderson River | 146 |
| [94.] | Oblong labret of bone | 147 |
| [95.] | Oblong labret of soapstone | 147 |
| [96.] | Ancient labret | 148 |
| [97.] | Beads of amber | 149 |
| [98.] | Hair combs | 150 |
| [99.] | Slate knives | 151 |
| [100.] | Slate knife-blade | 152 |
| [101.] | Slate knife | 152 |
| [102.] | Slate knife | 152 |
| [103.] | Slate hunting-knife | 152 |
| [104.] | Blade of slate hunting-knife | 153 |
| [105.] | Large slate knife | 153 |
| [106.] | Large single-edged slate knife | 153 |
| [107.] | Blades of knives | 154 |
| [108.] | Peculiar slate knife | 154 |
| [109.] | Knife with whalebone blade | 155 |
| [110.] | Small iron knife | 155 |
| [111.] | Small iron knives | 156 |
| [112.] | Iron hunting knife | 156 |
| [113.] | Large crooked knife | 158 |
| [114.] | Large crooked knife with sheath | 158 |
| [115.] | Small crooked knives | 159 |
| [116.] | Crooked knife | 159 |
| [117.] | Crooked knives, flint-bladed | 160 |
| [118.] | Slate-bladed crooked knives | 161 |
| [119.] | Woman’s knife, steel blade | 161 |
| [120.] | Woman’s knife, slate blade | 162 |
| [121.] | Woman’s knife, slate blade | 162 |
| [122.] | Woman’s knife, slate blade | 162 |
| [123.] | Woman’s knife, slate blade | 162 |
| [124.] | Woman’s ancient slate-bladed knife | 163 |
| [125.] | Ancient bone handle for woman’s knife | 163 |
| [126.] | Large knife of slate | 163 |
| [127.] | Woman’s knife of flaked flint | 164 |
| [128.] | Hatchet hafted as an adz | 165 |
| [129.] | Hatchet hafted as an adz | 166 |
| [130.] | Adz-head of jade | 167 |
| [131.] | Adz-head of jade | 167 |
| [132.] | Hafted jade adz | 168 |
| [133.] | Adz-head of jade and bone | 168 |
| [134.] | Adz-head of bone and iron, without eyes | 168 |
| [135.] | Adz-head of bone and iron, with vertical eyes | 169 |
| [136.] | Adz-head of bone and iron, with vertical eyes | 169 |
| [137.] | Hafted bone and iron adz | 169 |
| [138.] | Hafted bone and stone adz | 170 |
| [139.] | Small adz-blade of green jade | 170 |
| [140.] | Hafted adz of bone and flint | 171 |
| [141.] | Old cooper’s adz, rehafted | 171 |
| [142.] | Adz with bone blade | 172 |
| [143.] | Antler chisel | 173 |
| [144.] | Antler chisel | 173 |
| [145.] | Spurious tool, flint blade | 173 |
| [146.] | Whalebone shave, slate blade | 174 |
| [147.] | Saw made of deer’s scapula | 175 |
| [148.] | Saw made of a case-knife | 175 |
| [149.] | Bow drill | 176 |
| [150.] | Bow drill and mouthpiece | 176 |
| [151.] | Bow drill | 177 |
| [152.] | Drill bow | 177 |
| [153.] | Drill bows | 178 |
| [154.] | Spliced drill bow | 178 |
| [155.] | Drill mouthpiece with iron socket | 179 |
| [156.] | Drill mouthpiece without wings | 179 |
| [157.] | Bone-pointed drill | 179 |
| [158.] | Handles for drill cords | 180 |
| [159.] | Flint-bladed reamers | 182 |
| [160.] | Flint-bladed reamers | 182 |
| [161.] | Awl | 182 |
| [162.] | Jade whetstones | 183 |
| [163.] | Jade whetstones | 184 |
| [164.] | Wooden tool-boxes | 185 |
| [165.] | Large wooden tool-boxes | 186 |
| [166.] | Tool-bag of wolverine skin | 187 |
| [167.] | Tool-bag of wolverine skin | 188 |
| [168.] | Drills belonging to the tool-bag | 189 |
| [169.] | Comb for deerskins in the tool-bag | 189 |
| [170.] | Bag handles | 190 |
| [171.] | Bag of leather | 190 |
| [172.] | Little hand-club | 191 |
| [173.] | Slungshot made of walrus jaw | 191 |
| [174.] | Dagger of bear’s bone | 192 |
| [175.] | Bone daggers | 192 |
| [176.] | So-called dagger of bone | 193 |
| [177.] | Boy’s bow from Utkiavwiñ | 196 |
| [178.] | Loop at end of bowstring | 197 |
| [179.] | Large bow from Nuwŭk | 197 |
| [180.] | Large bow from Sidaru | 198 |
| [181.] | Feathering of the Eskimo arrow | 201 |
| [182.] | Flint-headed arrow (kukĭksadlĭñ) | 202 |
| [183.] | Long flint pile | 202 |
| [184.] | Short flint pile | 202 |
| [185.] | Heart-shaped flint pile | 203 |
| [186.] | (a) Arrow with “after pile” (ipudligadlĭñ); (b) arrow with iron pile (savidlĭñ); (c) arrow with iron pile (savidlĭñ); (d) arrow with copper pile (savidlĭñ); (e) deer-arrow (nûtkodlĭñ) | 203 |
| [187.] | Pile of deer arrow (nûtkăñ) | 205 |
| [188.] | “Kûnmûdlĭñ” arrow pile | 205 |
| [189.] | (a) Fowl arrow (tugalĭñ); (b) bird arrow (kixodwain) | 206 |
| [190.] | Bow case and quivers | 208 |
| [191.] | Quiver rod | 209 |
| [192.] | Cap for quiver rod | 209 |
| [193.] | Bracer | 210 |
| [194.] | Bracer of bone | 210 |
| [195.] | Bird dart | 211 |
| [196.] | Point for bird dart | 212 |
| [197.] | Ancient point for bird dart | 212 |
| [198.] | Point for bird dart | 213 |
| [199.] | Bird dart with double point | 213 |
| [200.] | Ancient ivory dart head | 214 |
| [201.] | Bone dart head | 214 |
| [202.] | Nozzle for bladder float | 215 |
| [203.] | Seal dart | 215 |
| [204.] | Foreshaft of seal dart | 217 |
| [205.] | Throwing board for darts | 217 |
| [206.] | Harpoon head | 218 |
| [207.] | Harpoon head | 219 |
| [208.] | Ancient bone harpoon head | 219 |
| [209.] | (a) Ancient bone harpoon head; (b) variants of this type | 220 |
| [210.] | Bone harpoon head | 220 |
| [211.] | Bone harpoon head | 220 |
| [212.] | Harpoon head, bone and stone | 221 |
| [213.] | Harpoon head, bone and stone | 221 |
| [214.] | Walrus harpoons | 224 |
| [215.] | Typical walrus-harpoon heads | 226 |
| [216.] | Typical walrus-harpoon heads | 226 |
| [217.] | Typical walrus-harpoon heads | 227 |
| [218.] | Walrus-harpoon head, with “leader” | 227 |
| [219.] | Walrus-harpoon head, with line | 228 |
| [220.] | Walrus-harpoon head, with line | 228 |
| [221.] | Walrus-harpoon head, with line | 229 |
| [222.] | Foreshaft of walrus harpoon | 230 |
| [223.] | Harpoon head for large seals | 230 |
| [224.] | Retrieving seal harpoon | 231 |
| [225.] | Details of retrieving seal harpoon | 232 |
| [226.] | Jade blade for seal harpoon | 233 |
| [227.] | Seal harpoon for thrusting | 233 |
| [228.] | Diagram of lashing on shaft | 234 |
| [229.] | Model of a seal harpoon | 235 |
| [230.] | Large model of whale harpoon | 235 |
| [231.] | Model of whale harpoon, with floats | 236 |
| [232.] | Flint blade for whale harpoon | 237 |
| [233.] | Slate blade for whale harpoon | 237 |
| [234.] | Body of whale harpoon head | 238 |
| [235.] | Whale harpoon heads | 238 |
| [236.] | Whale harpoon head with “leader” | 239 |
| [237.] | Foreshaft of whale harpoon | 239 |
| [238.] | Whale lance | 240 |
| [239.] | Flint head of whale lance | 241 |
| [240.] | Flint heads for whale lances | 241 |
| [241.] | Bear lance | 242 |
| [242.] | Flint head for bear lance | 242 |
| [243.] | Deer lance | 243 |
| [244.] | Part of deer lance with flint head | 243 |
| [245.] | Deer lance, flint head | 244 |
| [246.] | Flint head for deer lance | 244 |
| [247.] | Bird bolas, looped up for carrying | 245 |
| [248.] | Bird bolas, ready for use | 245 |
| [249.] | Sealskin float | 247 |
| [250.] | Flipper toggles | 248 |
| [251.] | Boxes for harpoon heads | 249 |
| [252.] | Seal net | 251 |
| [253.] | Scratchers for decoying seals | 253 |
| [254.] | Seal rattle | 254 |
| [255.] | Seal indicators | 255 |
| [256.] | Sealing stool | 255 |
| [257.] | Seal drag and handles | 257 |
| [258.] | Whalebone wolf killers | 259 |
| [259.] | Wooden snow-goggles | 261 |
| [260.] | Bone snow-goggles | 262 |
| [261.] | Wooden snow-goggles, unusual form | 262 |
| [262.] | Marker for meat cache | 262 |
| [263.] | Marker for meat cache | 263 |
| [264.] | Tackle for shore fishing | 279 |
| [265.] | Knot of line into hook | 279 |
| [266.] | Small fish-hooks | 280 |
| [267.] | Hooks for river fishing | 280 |
| [268.] | Tackle for river fishing | 280 |
| [269.] | Burbot hook, first pattern | 281 |
| [270.] | Burbot hook, second pattern | 281 |
| [271.] | Burbot hook, made of cod hook | 281 |
| [272.] | Burbot tackle, baited | 281 |
| [273.] | Ivory sinker | 282 |
| [274.] | Ivory jigger for polar cod | 282 |
| [275.] | Section of whalebone net | 284 |
| [276.] | Mesh of sinew net | 285 |
| [277.] | Fish trap | 285 |
| [278.] | Fish spear | 286 |
| [279.] | Flint flakers | 288 |
| [280.] | Haft of flint flaker | 288 |
| [281.] | Flint flaker, with bone blade | 289 |
| [282.] | Fire drill, with mouthpiece and stock | 289 |
| [283.] | Set of bow-and-arrow tools | 291 |
| [284.] | Marline spike | 292 |
| [285.] | Marline spike | 292 |
| [286.] | “Twister” for working sinew backing of bow | 293 |
| [287.] | “Feather setter” | 294 |
| [288.] | Tool of antler | 294 |
| [289.] | Skin scraper | 295 |
| [290.] | Skin scrapers—handles only | 295 |
| [291.] | Skin scrapers | 296 |
| [292.] | Skin scraper | 296 |
| [293.] | Peculiar modification of scraper | 296 |
| [294.] | Skin scraper | 297 |
| [295.] | Skin scraper | 297 |
| [296.] | Skin scraper | 297 |
| [297.] | Flint blade for skin scraper | 298 |
| [298.] | Straight-hafted scraper | 298 |
| [299.] | Bone scraper | 299 |
| [300.] | Scraper cups | 299 |
| [301.] | Combs for cleaning deer-skins | 301 |
| [302.] | “Double slit” splice for rawhide lines | 302 |
| [303.] | Mattock of whale’s rib | 303 |
| [304.] | Pickax-heads of bone, ivory, and whale’s rib | 303 |
| [305.] | Ivory snow knife | 305 |
| [306.] | Snow shovels | 305 |
| [307.] | Snow shovel made of a whale’s scapula | 307 |
| [308.] | Snow pick | 307 |
| [309.] | Snow drill | 308 |
| [310.] | Ice scoop | 308 |
| [311.] | Long blubber hook | 310 |
| [312.] | Short-handled blubber hook | 310 |
| [313.] | Fish sealer | 311 |
| [314.] | Ivory shuttle | 311 |
| [315.] | Netting needle | 312 |
| [316.] | Mesh stick | 312 |
| [317.] | Netting needles | 313 |
| [318.] | Netting needles for seal net | 314 |
| [319.] | Netting needle | 314 |
| [320.] | Mesh sticks | 314 |
| [321.] | Netting weights | 316 |
| [322.] | Shuttle belonging to set of feather tools | 316 |
| [323.] | Mesh stick | 317 |
| [324.] | “Sword” for feather weaving | 317 |
| [325.] | Quill case of bone needles | 318 |
| [326.] | (a) Large bone needle and peculiar thimble; (b) Leather thimbles with bone needles | 318 |
| [327.] | Needle cases with belt hooks | 320 |
| [328.] | (a) Needle case with belt hook; (b) needle case open, showing bone needles | 321 |
| [329.] | Trinket boxes | 323 |
| [330.] | Trinket boxes | 324 |
| [331.] | Ivory box | 325 |
| [332.] | Bone box | 325 |
| [333.] | Little flask of ivory | 325 |
| [334.] | Box in shape of deer | 325 |
| [335.] | Small basket | 326 |
| [336.] | Small basket | 326 |
| [337.] | Small basket | 327 |
| [338.] | Kaiak | 329 |
| [339.] | Method of fastening together frame of kaiak | 329 |
| [340.] | Double kaiak paddle | 330 |
| [341.] | Model kaiak and paddle | 334 |
| [342.] | Frame of umiak | 336 |
| [343.] | (a) Method of fastening bilge-streaks to stem of umiak; (b) method of framing rib to gunwale, etc. | 337 |
| [344.] | Method of slinging the oar of umiak | 339 |
| [345.] | (a) Model of umiak and paddles; (b) model of umiak, inside plan | 340 |
| [346.] | Ivory bailer for umiak | 340 |
| [347.] | Ivory crotch for harpoon | 341 |
| [348.] | Ivory crotch for harpoon | 342 |
| [349.] | Crotch for harpoon made of walrus jaw | 342 |
| [350.] | Snowshoe | 345 |
| [351.] | Knot in snowshoe netting | 346 |
| [352.] | (a) First round of heel-netting of snowshoe; (b) first and second round of heel-netting of snowshoe | 347 |
| [353.] | (a) First round of heel-netting of snowshoe; (b) first, second, and third rounds of heel-netting of snowshoe | 348 |
| [354.] | Small snowshoe | 350 |
| [355.] | Old “chief,” with staffs | 353 |
| [356.] | Railed sledge (diagrammatic), from photograph | 354 |
| [357.] | Flat sledge | 355 |
| [358.] | Small sledge with ivory runners | 355 |
| [359.] | Small toboggan of whalebone | 357 |
| [360.] | Hunting score engraved on ivory | 361 |
| [361.] | Hunting score engraved on ivory, obverse and reverse | 362 |
| [362.] | Hunting score engraved on ivory | 362 |
| [363.] | Hunting score engraved on ivory, obverse and reverse | 363 |
| [364.] | Game of fox and geese from Plover Bay | 365 |
| [365.] | Dancing cap | 365 |
| [366.] | Wooden mask | 366 |
| [367.] | Wooden mask and dancing gorget | 367 |
| [368.] | Old grotesque mask | 368 |
| [369.] | Rude mask of wood | 369 |
| [370.] | Wolf mask of wood | 369 |
| [371.] | Very ancient small mask | 369 |
| [372.] | Dancing gorgets of wood | 371 |
| [373.] | Youth dancing to the aurora | 375 |
| [374.] | Whirligigs | 377 |
| [375.] | Teetotum | 378 |
| [376.] | Buzz toy | 378 |
| [377.] | Whizzing stick | 379 |
| [378.] | Pebble snapper | 379 |
| [379.] | Carving of human head | 380 |
| [380.] | Mechanical doll—drum-player | 381 |
| [381.] | Mechanical toy—kaiak paddler | 381 |
| [382.] | Kaiak carved from block of wood | 382 |
| [383.] | Drum | 385 |
| [384.] | Handle of drum secured to rim | 386 |
| [385.] | Drum handles | 387 |
| [386.] | Ivory drumsticks | 388 |
| [387.] | Ancient carving—human head | 393 |
| [388.] | Wooden figures | 393 |
| [389.] | Carving—face of Eskimo man | 394 |
| [390.] | Grotesque soapstone image—“walrus man” | 394 |
| [391.] | Bone image of dancer | 395 |
| [392.] | Bone image of man | 396 |
| [393.] | Grotesque bone image | 396 |
| [394.] | Bone image—sitting man | 396 |
| [395.] | Human figure carved from walrus ivory | 396 |
| [396.] | Ivory carving—three human heads | 397 |
| [397.] | Rude human head, carved from a walrus tooth | 397 |
| [398.] | Elaborate ivory carving | 398 |
| [399.] | Bear carved of soapstone | 398 |
| [400.] | Bear flaked from flint | 399 |
| [401.] | (a) Bear carved from bone; (b) bear’s head | 399 |
| [402.] | Ivory figures of bears | 400 |
| [403.] | Rude ivory figures of walrus | 401 |
| [404.] | Images of seal—wood and bone | 401 |
| [405.] | White whale carved from gypsum | 402 |
| [406.] | Wooden carving—whale | 403 |
| [407.] | Whale carved from soapstone | 403 |
| [408.] | Rude flat image of whale | 404 |
| [409.] | Ivory image of whale | 404 |
| [410.] | Ivory image of whale | 404 |
| [411.] | Pair of little ivory whales | 405 |
| [412.] | Soapstone image of imaginary animal | 405 |
| [413.] | Ivory carving, seal with fish’s head | 405 |
| [414.] | Ivory carving, ten-legged bear | 406 |
| [415.] | Ivory carving, giant holding whales | 406 |
| [416.] | Double-headed animal carved from antler | 407 |
| [417.] | Ivory carving—dog | 407 |
| [418.] | (a) Piece of ivory, engraved with figures; (b) development of pattern | 408 |
| [419.] | (a) Similar engraved ivory; (b) development of pattern | 408 |
| [420.] | Ivory doll | 409 |
| [421.] | Whale flaked from glass | 435 |
| [422.] | Whale flaked from red jasper | 435 |
| [423.] | Ancient whale amulet, of wood | 436 |
| [424.] | Amulet of whaling—stuffed godwit | 438 |
| [425.] | Amulet consisting of ancient jade adz | 438 |
| [426.] | Little box containing amulet for whaling | 439 |
| [427.] | Amulet for catching fowl with bolas | 439 |
| [428.] | Box of dried bees—amulet | 440 |
The Hunting Grounds
of the
Point Barrow Eskimo
Based on Lieut. P. H. Ray’s “Map of
Explorations in Northwestern Alaska,”
Signal Service, U.S.A. 1885
Completed by
John Murdoch