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ornaments used by this people. Case i8, beside the entrance, 

 contains material illustrating the use of the horse among the 

 Yakut. An important part of the subsistence of the tribe is 

 mare's milk, which is made into kumiss and into butter in large 

 leather churns. Kumiss is also used in ceremonials, when it is 

 served in large carved goblets. Butter-jars and large milk-pails 

 are made of birch-bark. The Yakut canoe (top of Case 17) is 

 similar in type to that of the Amur tribes exhibited in Hall 102. 



