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Image missingFig. 166.
Toy blubber-pounder. Image missingFig. 167.
Wooden doll. clothes on, of caribou skin of the usual cut of frock and trousers.

A large doll from Pingerqalik (Fig. 168) is made of caribou skin with the hair inside and stuffed with caribou hair; it has head, arms and well-developed legs, a hood of light caribou skin and black edge and hanging fringes, frock with white border at the bottom and a small flap at the back, and trousers; it seems to represent a boy. Length 25 cm, breadth 9 cm. A similar, dressed doll from Ponds Inlet is figured by Speck.^[1]

Fig. 169 (Repulse Bay) is a bird figure with flat under-side (tingmiu jaq), of ivory, decorated with rows of dots along the back; 3.6 cm long. Two others from Repulse Bay are of similar size and have respectively one and three rows of dots lengthwise along the back; one from Iglulik is only 1.4 cm long, unornamented. None of these bird figures have a hole in the rear end such as these tingmiujat usually have; Parry,^[2] however, figures one which has this hole, and it has a human forebody. Image missingFig. 168.Doll with clothing. The Iglulik Eskimos do not seem to know the use of these figures in games, such as Boas^[3] mentions from Cumberland Gulf.

A bull-roarer from Iglulik is of wood, 7.8 cm long, 1.8 cm wide, flat, slightly curved, with deep notches in the edges and, at the narrow end, a hole in which is fastened a piece of sinew-thread, 17 cm long, ending in a noose. A buzz (Beach Point), consists of a small vertebra of a white fish; through the two longitudinal canals are sinew- threads so that it can be made to spin round when they are pulled; 3.7 cm long.

Boas^[4] says that the children play at seals with a piece of skin with holes in it.

In the dark winter days and evenings, time often goes very slowly, especially when snowstorms and blizzards put a stop to hunt-