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THE POINT BARROW ESKIMO. 



89G97 [1589], Fig. 22) of perhaps more than one vessel, which appears 

 to have been tall and cylindrical, perhaps shaped like a bean-pot, pretty 

 smooth inside, and coated with dried oil or blood, black from age. 

 The outside is rather rough, and marked witli faint rounded transverse 

 ridges, as if a large cord had been wound round the vessel while still 

 soft. The largest shard has been broken obliquely across and mended 

 with two stitches of sinew, and all are very old and black. 



Beechey (Voyage, p. 295) speaks of &quot;earthen jars for cooking&quot; at 

 Ilotham Inlet in 1S2G and 1S27, and Mr. E. W. Kelson has collected a 



Flu. 2 J. Fragments of pottery. 



few jars from the Norton Sound region, very like what those used at 

 Point Barrow must have been. Choris figures a similar vessel in his 

 Voyage Fittoresque, PI. in (2d), Fig. 2, from Kotzebue Sound. Metal 

 kettles of various sorts are now exclusively used for cooking, and are 

 called by the same name as the old soapstone vessels, which it will be 

 observed corresponds to the name used by the eastern Eskimo. Light 

 sheet-iron camp-kettles are eagerly purchased and they are very glad 

 to get any kind of small tin cans, such as preserved meat tins, which 



