Drawing Item Number: 2978/83 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

Drawing on horizontal rectangular sheet of ivory paper of hunters and caribou. On the left side of the image are eight caribou in two vertical columns. The caribou in the left column are, from top to bottom, spotted, black, black yearling, spotted without antlers. The column to the right has four caribou all spotted. In the upper right are a cluster of six hunters. Two hold bows in their right hands, two hold spears in their right hands and two hold slingshots in their right hands. Below them are two columns of birds. The left column consists of four birds, from top to bottom, spotted, black with white wings, white with black markings and white wings, and all black. The right column consists of three birds, from top to bottom - spotted, spotted, all black.