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Show I Eskimo Carving. All of the Eskimo carving today is j done with steel tools, but there is work in existence that dates back to I the stone age. The older Eskimos say that thei ancestors used tools of flint, and it is known that they have been carving ivory for many generations. genera-tions. Some of the very poorest of them and those that live in the most out-of-the-way places are noted for their work of this kind. They seem to do It for pastime, and make many toys and dolls for their children. They have a way of softening the bone, horn, or ivory before they work it, and to make the carvings more distinct they etch lines on the surface with a black paint .made of a mixture of gunpowder gun-powder aud blood. This, when put on the freshly-cut bone, makes a permanent perma-nent stain. |