68 THE POINT 13AKKOW ESKIMO. 



No. 89292 [1752] (Fig. 7) is an extemporized pipe made in a hurry 

 by a man who wished to smoke, but had no pipe. 



It is simply a rough willow stick, slightly whittled into shape, split 

 and hollowed out like a pipestem. It is held together by a whipping 

 of sinew thread and a lashing of deerskin thong, fastened by a slip- 



FIG. 7. Pipe made of willow stick. 



knot at one end, the other being tucked in as usual. A small funnel- 

 shaped hole at one end serves for a bowl, and shows by its charred 

 surface that it has been actually used. This pipe was bought from one 

 of the &quot;Nunatanmiun,&quot; who were in camp atPernyuin 1883, and shows 

 its inland origin in the use of the deerskin thong. A (toast native would 

 have used seal thong. 



The pipe is carried at the girdle, either with the stem thrust inside 

 the breeches or in a bag attached to the belt. No. 50744 [55] (Utkiavwln) 

 is the only specimen of pipe bag in the collection. It is a long, narrow, 

 cylindric bag, made of four white ermine skins, with two hind legs and 

 two tails forming a fringe round the bottom, which is of dressed deerskin, 

 in one piece, flesh side out. The band round the mouth is of gray deer 

 skin, running only two-thirds of the way round. The piece which fills the 

 remaining third runs out into the strap for fastening the bag to the 

 belt. The ornamental strips on two of the longitudinal seams and 

 round the bottom are of deerskin. The, seams are all sewed &quot;over and 

 over&quot; on the &quot;wrong&quot; side with sinew thread. This is an unusually 

 handsome bag. 



Tobacco is carried in a small pouch of fur attached to the girdle, and 

 tucked inside of the breeches, or sometimes worn under the jacket, 

 slung round the neck by a string or the necklace. The collection con 

 tains three of these, of which No. 89803 [889] (Fig. 8a) will serve as a 

 typical specimen. 



It is made by sewing together two pieces of wolverine fur, hair out, 

 of the same shape and size, and round the mouth of this a band of short- 

 haired light-colored deerskin, also hair out, with the ends meeting at 

 one side in a seam corresponding to one of the seams of the wolverine 

 fur. The mouth is ornamented with a narrow band of wolverine fur, 

 the flesh side, which is colored red, turned out. It is closed by a 

 piece of seal thong about 5 inches long, one end of which is sewed to the 

 middle, of the seam in the deerskin band and the other passed through 

 a large blue glass bead and knotted. This string is wound two or three 

 times round the neck of the bag, and the bight of it tucked under the 



