lages are made, the huts, bidarkees (or canoes), and dog-sledges being in perfect miniature. The long sledge shown in the picture is from Labrador. It is a fine specimen of native workmanship. The dogs are cut out of fine-grained white wood, and are most natural in their attitudes. The toy-makers of Nuremberg or of Switzerland could not have done more skilful work. The art of these Arctic folk is the more wonderful when one considers the very primitive tools which they have to use. The knife with which they carve the dainty little figures is seldom more than a bit of steel barrel-hoop, ground down to an edge, and lashed with thongs of walrus-hide to a handle of bone or drift-wood. LABRADOR DOLL IN WINTER DRESS. The toys of the Zuñi Indians are modeled in clay and baked to prevent them from crumbling. Cows, goats, and frogs, streaked and spotted with paint, hold the first place in this collection, but there are also clay whistles and bird-warblers, the latter quite like the tin ones seen in our shop-windows. The bird is made to sing by filling its hollow body with water and blowing through a tube inserted in its back. ESKIMO DOG-SLEDGE CARVED OUT OF WOOD BY ESKIMOS. FROM UNCLE SAM'S "NOAH'S ARK." There are also clay rattles of various shapes and sizes in the Zuñi exhibit, and wooden birds that flap their jointed wings like those we hang upon our Christmas tree. Inthecol lection of games there are a great many objects interesting either for the oddity of their shape, curi ous opera by a bead string to a long steel bodkin. The bodkin is held in one hand and the bones tossed up into the air. A skilful player may succeed in catching one or more of the bones upon the steel point, and scores ZUNI RATTLE AND FLAPPING BIRD. accordingly. This game is a favorite with the Cheyenne and is not unlike Our tion, or beauty of workmanship. One novel A card game from Persia, valued at many game consists of four pieces of bone attached hundreds of dollars, has its board inlaid in stone incased in buckskin. The large foot ball in the picture is of Siamese manufacture; it is made of woven bamboo, is very springy, and is indestructible. Dice, dominoes, parcheesi, and checkers have not been forgotten by Uncle Sam in his collection of games. He has a generous supply of them on hand. Some counters are mere bits of bone, roughly whittled wood, or painted shells, while others are of elaborately carved and polished ivory. The mounted soldier, dressed in the costume of a warrior of the Spanish invasion, is from Mexico. His armor is made of bits of leather and is covered with strips of tin-foil to represent steel, as are also his feather-bedecked helmet and the point of the spear which he carries in his hand. The thought that comes to one when view can find its elegantly finished descendants in any toy-window, it may be, with the word Patented " marked upon them. Another exhibit of especial interest to boys is a collection of balls-baseballs, handballs, and footballs. One among them is a nicely rounded bit of solid rubber. Others are built up of tightly wrapped deer-hide; these are used by the Indian boys. There are others still of wood; and one ball in particular, which it would not be advisable for any boy to attempt to take off the bat," even with an extra heavy pair of catcher's gloves, is made of CANTON |