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(Symbol missingsymbol characters) the former of these was, however, used as recently as in Parry's time, it being found on a pair of snow goggles which he illustrates[1] and on a bodkin or something similar.[2] However. I quite agree with Boas in pointing out the great difference in decorative art between the Central Eskimos and the Western Eskimos: "In the east we find hardly any attempt to decorate implements, while in Alaska there is a very strongly developed tendency to do so . . . . The few etchings that occur among the eastern Eskimo either consist simply of dots or lines, or they are clearly of very recent origin, being due to European influence".[3] To this latter. Boas also ascribes the only attempt at etched, realistic motives that are known from the Iglulik Eskimos,[4] a comb, on which two human figures are scratched.

  1. ↑ Parry 1824, plate p. 548. 4.
  2. ↑ l. c.,550.
  3. ↑ Boas 1901, p. 367.
  4. ↑ l. c., fig. 156 c.
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