THE LAMP OF THE ESKIMO. 1045 



witli its accessories. It also emphasizes the strait caused by the almost 

 total lack of wood, bones, antlers, etc., being emjiloyed. instead, A 

 snowshoe apparently is made to do duty as a drying frame. Atten- 

 tion is called to the drip catcher under the lamp, and the fat suspended 

 by a thong over the heat of the tiame. (See plate 4.) 



Lamp. Of soapstone; very large and worked out very neatly, the result being a 

 lamji of elegant shape. The bottom is Hat aud the sides nearly vortical. The 

 reservoir is nearly flat and slopes gradually np to the wick edge, while the rear 

 wall is high. The wick edge curves more than is usual in Eskimo lamps. The 

 lamp has been broken and repaired neatly with sinew aud cement. Length, 26^ 

 inches; width, I'iik inches; height at front, 2^ inches; at back, 3^ inches. 

 Eskimo, Repulse Bay. Collected by Capt. C. F. Hall. 10439. Plate 5, flg. 1. 



Stone lamp. Excavated from soapstone, the wick edge slightly curved, the back 

 bowed, forming a shell-shaped dish. The lamp seems to show traces of having 

 been worked with stone tools. The rear wall is nearly vertical ; the reservoir 

 neatly hollowed out, being deepest in the middle, gently sloping np to the lip 

 and to the rear. A shallow groove has been cut along the inner margin of the 

 lip, for convenience in installing the wick. The stone is worked thin and resem- 

 bles pottery. The lamp is probably one used in summer or in traveling. It is 

 wider than the Cumberland Gulf type. Length, 7 inches; width, 4^ inches; 

 height, I inch. Eskimo, Smith Sound. Collected by Dr. I, I. Hayes. 176064. 

 Plate 5, fig. 2. 



Lamp. Of hard stone, smoothly worked out, the corners and edges rounded. The 

 wick edge is curved at the ends; the intervening portion nearly straight. The 

 bottom is rounded and the lamp inclines toward the wick edge. In outline it 

 has the shape of the gibbous uioon. This specimen seems to have been taken from 

 an old village site. Length, 8^ inches ; width, 5i inches ; heiglit at rear, 2| 

 inches; at front, 2^ inches. South Greenland. From the Royal Museum of 

 Northern Antiquities, Copenhagen. 45845. Plate 5, fig. 3. 



Small stone lamp. Cut from soapstone; roughly elliptic in outline; the bottom 

 flat, heavily scored by the cutting implement. The sides slant iipward and out- 

 ward; the reservoir is deep, the bottom flat, the walls slanting outward. The 

 wick edge is strongly curved, hence the wide seems to have been supplied with 

 oil, only at the middle portion. This is probably a summer or traveliuglanip from 

 South Greenland. Length, 6 inches : width, 3 J inches ; height at front, li inches ; 

 at rear, 2 inches. Eskimo, South Greenland. From the Royal Museum of 

 Northern Antiquities, Copenhagen. 45844. Plate 5, fig. 4. 



Model of lamp and cookinu pot. Made by Mik-sang-wah, native of the village 

 of Karnah, 77° 20' N. 70° W. These natives are called the most northern Eskimo, 

 luglefield Gulf, Greenland. Peary Auxiliary Expedition, 1894. Henry G. P>ry- 

 ant. 175705. Plate 6, fig. 1. 



Lamp. Large lamp of soapstone, well finished. It is elliptic in outline, the bottom 

 and floor of the reservoir flat, the wick edge thick aud lower than the sloping 

 back. Length, 17 inches; width, 7 inches; height at back, 2 inches; at front, 

 1|^ inches. Eskimo of Itah, Smith Sound, Greenland. Collected by Dr. Emil 

 Bessels. 126745. Plate 6, fig 2. 



Stonp; lamp. Rudely excavated from sandstone, probably from a concretion. The 

 edges are broken and worn down, the bottom is rounded but the lamp balances. 

 In general shape it follows the South Greenland type, the character aud hard- 

 ness of the material and its evident age have modified its appearance. Length, 

 7f inches; width, 5 inches; height, about 2| inches. Eskimo, Greenland. Col- 

 lected by Dr. I. I. Hayes. 504. Plate 7, fig. 1. 



Lamp. Of soapstone, neatly worked out, somewhat in the shape of a clam shell, or 

 having the outline of an obtuse equilateral triangle. It is accurately balanced 



