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and on the posterior side a handle like projection which extends outward 

 for two inches from the general outline of the lamp. Along the opposite 

 side the bottom slopes gradually from the border to the side next to 

 the projection just described, where its deepest point is found. Just 

 below the border is a ridge for supporting the wick, which rests along 

 the upper edge of the lamp in front. Plate xxvni, 10, represents a 

 wooden bowl-like holder or support for this lamp. It is excavated into 

 a smoothly oval, gourd-shape depression, and has the bottom flat to 

 insure its retaining an upright position. 



All. of the lamps from St Lawrence island are made with nearly ttat 

 bottoms, with the exception of that shown in plate xxyin, 4, in which 

 the base is rounded. 



Plate xxvni, 12, from Norton bay, is a crescentic toy lamp made of 

 stone, with a sharp edge extending almost straight across one side, the 

 remainder of the border approaching a semicircle. 



Figure 11 of the same plate is a clay lamp from St Michael, very 

 similar in shape to the preceding; it is the ordinary form used at that 

 locality and in other villages of the Unalaklit. 



From St Michael there is a toy lamp (number 43470) made apparently 

 by utilizing a natural hollow in a small stone. There is also a small 

 toy lamp of stone (number 0475), from Cape Darby, of cresceutic out 

 line, and sloping from the nearly straight border to the deepest point 

 below the rim on the opposite side. 



Figure represents a stone lamp obtained by Mr L. M. Turner at 

 iSt Michael; it is nearly pear-shape in outline, with a smoothly sunken 

 depression. 



Figure 2, from Big lake, shows a round, saucer-shape toy lamp of 

 clay, with the bottom rounded and the interior regularly depressed. A 

 series of three parallel grooves are incised around the outer edge, near 

 the border; inside the border are seven incised parallel grooves, suc 

 ceeded by two others which encircle the center of the bottom and are 

 connected with the series on the side by four spoke-like rays, each of 

 which is formed by a series of four incised lines with an intermediate 

 row of dots. 



Similar round, saucer-shape lamps are in common use from the Kus- 

 kokwim to the Yukon mouth and are found also along the shore of 

 Norton sound to St Michael. One of these lamps from the lower 

 Yukon bears Museum number 380780.. It has two grooves encircling 

 the outside, near the border; inside are four heavy grooves, and a large 

 cross is incised in the center of the bottom. 



DIPPERS, LADLES, AND SPOONS 



In the neighborhood of Norton sound and the lower Yukon the most 



common form of dipper is made by cutting a long, thin strip of spruce, 



three to six inches wide, and fashioning one end into the form of a 



handle; the other end is thinned down to a long, wedge shape point, 



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