is_, and so on.

[Illustration: CHUKCH BONE CARVINGS.
1. Dog, natural size.
2., 3. Hares, natural size.
4. Woman carrying her child on her shoulders, two-thirds.
5. Mollusc from the inland lakes (Branchypus?) natural size.
6. Monster, natural size.
7. Fox, natural size.
8. Animal with three heads, two-thirds.
9. Asterid, natural size,
10. Fish, natural size. ]

The women work very hard. Not only the management of the children,
the cooking, the melting of the ice, the putting the tent in order,
the sewing, and other "woman's work," lie to their hand, but they
receive the catch, in winter in the tent, in summer at the beach,
cut it in pieces, help with the fishing, at least when it is in the
neighbourhood of the tent, and carry out the exceedingly laborious
tanning of the hides, and prepare thread from sinews. In summer they
collect green plants in the meadows and hill-slopes in the
neighbourhood of the tents. They are therefore generally at home,
and always busy. The men have it for their share to procure for
their family food from the animal kingdom by hunting and fishing.
With this purpose in view they are often out on long excursions. In
the tent the man is for the most part without occupation, sleeps,
eats, gossips, chats with his children, and so on, if he does not
pass the time in putting his hunting implements in order in a quite
leisurely manner.

Within the family the most remarkable unanimity prevails, so that we
never heard a hard word exchanged, either between man and wife,
parents and children, or between the married pair who own the tent
and the unmarried who occasionally live in it. The power of the woman
appears to be very great. In making the more important bargains,
even about weapons and hunting implements, she is, as a rule,
consulted, and her advice is taken. A number of things which form
women's tools she can barter away on her own responsibility, or in
any other way employ as she pleases. When the man has by barter
procured a piece of cloth, tobacco, sugar, or such like, he
generally hands it over to his wife to keep.

The children are neither chastised nor scolded, they are, however,
the best behaved I have ever seen. Their behaviour in the tent is
equal to that of the best-brought-up European children in the
parlour. They are not, perhaps, so wild as ours, but are addicted to
games which closely resemble those common among us in the country.
Playthings are also in use, for inst