Alaskan Inuits have legends of the kikituk, a seagoing reptile that walks ashore hunting humans, and bone carvings of giant four-legged reptiles confronting men and caribou were cataloged in 1897.
The western edge of the area is best known for its small carvings of human figures and for its carved canoe ornaments.
King posts, which had female figures carved at their bases, extended high above the house roofs and were topped with carvings of human beings grasped by eagles.
The eaves have corbel brackets with carvings including human faces and animals.
On the upper surface are two relief carvings of human feet.
Most Māori carvings feature human figures, generally with three fingers and either a natural-looking, detailed head or a grotesque head.
Most powerful are the hieroglyphic carvings, in which human faces, weapons and ornaments seem manically compressed to fill rectangular molds, saturating available space with bulbous images.
The main nonarchitectural carvings yena, human heads; mindja, long boardlike carvings with a head at one end; and nogwi, figures of women were made for the three main rituals of the yam cult.
The doorway is decorated with carvings of two human heads, one wearing a mitre.
Among them he found tools made of bone and shell, pottery, human bones, masks, and animal carvings made of wood.
