THE LAMP OF THE ESKIMO. 1053 



Lamp. Old pottery lamp of the ordinary Bristol Bay type. The edge shows marks 

 of charring aud the lamp is soaked with oil. Diameter, 7A inches; height, 2| 

 inches. Eskimo, Bristol Bay, Alaska. Collected by C. L. McKay. 56020a. 

 Plate 18, tig. 3. 



Lamp. Saucer-shaped lamp of pottery, soaked with oil. This lamp is plain. There 

 is a very shallow depression on the interior just below the edge, which detines 

 the rim. Diameter, 5^ inches; height, If inches. Eskimo, Ugashik, Bristol 

 Bay, Alaska. Collected by J. W. Johnson. 127660b. Plate 18, lig. 4. 



Lamp. Saucer shajjed lamp of pottery, neatly made, soaked with oil. The walls 

 are decorated with horizontal parallel siiallow grooves scratched in the paste. 

 The exterior of the beveled rim is decorated in the same way. In the center 

 of the vessel is an outlined circle, from which radiate at right angles four arms, 

 formed of grooves scratched in the paste, which Mr. Nelson informs the writer 

 is a personal mark. Diameter, 4f inches; height, li inches. Eskimo, Big Lake, 

 Alaska. Collected by E. W. Nelson. 38077. Plato 19, fig. 1. 



Lamp. Of pottery, soaked with oil; saucer-shaped. In the bottom is a, square cross 

 in ii circular field bounded by the lowest of the four groo^^es around the side. 

 The outside of the rim has three grooves; the bottom is quite smooth and even 

 in outline. Traces of moss are found in the grooves. The function of the grooves, 

 if they are more than decorative, is not known. The lamp may have been 

 burned by means of a piece of moss placed in the center or floating in th<i oil, 

 like those of the Novaks.' Diameter, 3| inches ; height,!^ inches. Eskimo of 

 Lower Yukon, Alaska. Collected by E. W. Nelson, 38078. Plate 19, fig. 2. 



Lamp. Pottery lamp with horizontal grooves around the inside of the walls aud 

 with beveled edge. The lamp is well-shaped and is sliallower than 56022. It is 

 incrusted with grease. Diameter, 8+ inches; height, 2| inches. Eskimo, Bris- 

 tol Bay, Alaska. Collected by C. L. McKay. 56021. Plate 19, fig. 3. 



Lamp. Heavy, clumsily made, saucer-shaped, dish of unbaked clay without temper. 

 The object has never been used. Diameter, 5 inches ; height, 2 inches. Eskimo, 

 Ugashik, Bristol Bay, Alaska. Collected by .). W. Johnson. 127660a. 



Lamp. Evenly-shaped bowl lamp of pottery, with numerous horizontal ridges on 

 the inside. Along a portion of the rim there is a charred crust, as though the 

 lamp had been tilted and burned with a moss wick as in other lamps. The base 

 is somewhat flattened. Diameter, 7 inches; height, 3^ inches. Eskimo, Bristol 

 Bay, Alaska. Collected by C. L. McKay. 56022. 



Lamp. Made of fine homogeneous clay ; burned. It is the largest circular pottery 

 lamp in the United States National Museum. The edge is beveled and grooved. 

 The grooves inside are shallow, and in the floor of the lamj) is a circle with 

 radiating arms, forming a cross. From the incrustation around the edge it would 

 seem that a moss wick was u.sed. Diameter, lOi inches; height, 3| inches. 

 Eskimo, Bristol Bay, Alaska. Collected by C. L. McKay. 56020. 



Lamp. Heavy saucer-shaped lamp of pottery; soaked with oil from use. This 

 lamp is plain, and has evidently seen long service. There is no well-iuiirked 

 wick edge, and it is probable tiiat the wick floateil in the oil or was placed in 

 the center. This lamp was used in the house. Diameter, 8| inches; height, 

 2f inches. Eskimo, Ugashik, Bristol Bay, Alaska. Collected by J. W. .lohnsou. 

 127660c. 



Lamp. This lamp is of hard crystalline rock. It has been worked apjiarently from 

 a l)eaih pebble by pecking. The lower portion is rounded without flattened 

 portion for a base of support; the lani]), however, is stable and has a slight 

 inclination toward the wick edge ; around the side a wide groove has been worked, 

 making a decided rim. The reser\oir is shallow and perfectly oval in outline with 

 a flat edge, which has been worked down at one aiiex of the oval to form a narrow 

 lip for the wick. The reservoir and edge have been rubbed smooth. The lamp is 



' Kennau, Tent Life in Siberia, p. 175. 



