MURDOCH.] BUCKETS AND TUBS. 87 



seam close to the outer end, which is steeply chamfered off and painted 

 red, and the other 1-0 inches from this. Both seams are countersunk in 

 shallow grooves on the outer part. The bucket is ornamented with a 

 shallow groove running round the top, and a vertical groove between 

 the seams. These grooves and the seam grooves are painted red. The 

 bail is of stout iron wire fastened on by two ears of white walrus ivory 

 cut into a. rude outline of a whale, and secured by neat lashings of whale 

 bone passing through corresponding holes in the ear and the bucket. 

 The bucket has been some time in use. 



No. 507G3 [300] is a bucket with a bail, and very nearly of the same 

 shape and dimensions. It has, however, a bail made of rope yarns 

 braided together, and the ears are plain flat pieces of ivory. Buckets 

 of this size, with bails, are especially used for water, particularly for 

 bringing it from the ponds and streams. The name &quot;kfitauu&quot; corre 

 sponds to the Greenlandic katauaK, &quot; a water-pail with which water is 

 brought to the house.&quot; 



No. 89891 [1735] (Fig. 17), which is nearly new, is a very large tub 

 (ilull kpfin, which appears to mean &quot;a capacious thing ) without a bail, 

 and is 11 inches high and 20 in diameter. 

 The sides are made of two pieces of plank 

 of equal length, whose ends overlap alter 

 nately and are sewed together as before. 

 The bottom is in two pieces, one large and 

 one small, neatly fastened together with 

 two dowels, and is not only held in by hav 

 ing its edge chamfered to fit the croze, but 

 is pegged in with fourteen small treenails. 

 The seams, edges, and two ornamental 

 grooves around the top are painted red as 



Fio. 17. Largo tub. 



before. 



No. 89890 [1753] is smaller, 9-7 inches high and 14-5 in diameter. It 

 has no bail, and is ornamented with two grooves, of which the lower is 

 painted with black lead. The bottom is in two equal pieces, fastened 

 together with three dowels. This is a new tub and has- the knotholes 

 neatly plugged with wood. There are a number of these tubs in every 

 house. They are known by the generic name of imusiaru (which is ap 

 plied also to a barrel, and which means literally &quot;an unusual cup or 

 dipper,&quot; small cups of the same shape being called i musyu), but have 

 special names signifying their use. For instance, the little tub about 6 

 inches in diameter, used by the males as a urinal, is called kuvwlfi 

 (&quot;the place for urine.&quot;) One of these large tubs always stands to 

 catch the drip from the lump of snow in the house, and those of the 

 largest size, like No. 89891 [1735], are the kind used as chamberpots. 



Vessels of this sort are in use throughout Alaska, and have been ob 

 served among the eastern Eskimo where they have wood enough to 



1 Grenl. Ordbog., p. 135. 



