DRINKING VESSELS. 



101 



Fia.37 Wliak-bono cup. 



bone in the usuiil way. Trays and dishes of this sort are in general use 

 among all Eskimo, 1 and are sometimes made of tanned sealskins. 2 



DRINKING VESSELS. 



\YhnlclMHC Cup (I mitxyit). One of the commonest forms of drinking 

 vessels is a little tub of whalebone of precisely the same shape as the 

 large whalebone dish described above (p. SS). Of these there are live 

 specimens in the collection, all from Ut- 

 kiavwlii. No. 80853 [1302] (Fig. 37) will 

 serve as the type. It is 4-0 inches long 

 and made by binding a strip ot black 

 whalebone round a spruce bottom, and 

 sewing together the ends, which over 

 lap each other about 1^ inches, with 

 coarse strips of whalebone. 



There are two vertical seams three- 

 fourths inch apart. The bottom is held 

 in by fitting its slightly chamfered edge 

 into a shallow croze cut in the whalebone. All these cups are made 

 almost exactly alike, and nearly of the same size, varying only a frac 

 tion of an inch in height, and from 4-2 to 5-5 inches in length. The 

 only variation is in the distance the ends overlap and the number of 

 stitches in the seams. Such cups are to be found in nearly every house, 

 and one is generally kept conveniently near the water bucket. Though 

 the pattern is an ancient one, they are still manufactured. No. 5(&amp;gt;5(i() 



[G54] was found among the 

 debris of one of the ruined 

 houses at UtkiavwTii, and 

 differs from the modern 

 cups only in having the 

 ends sewed together with 

 one seam instead of two, 

 while No. 80851 [1300], 

 though it has been in ac 

 tual use, was made after 

 our arrival, as the bottom 

 is made of a piece of one of 

 our cigar boxes. 



Dippers of horn are in very general use for drinking water. These 

 are all of essentially the same shape, and are made of the light yellow 

 translucent horn of the mountain sheep. There are three specimens in 

 our collection, of which No. 56534 [28] (Fig. 38) has been selected as the 

 type. This is made of a single piece of pale yellow translucent horn, 



Sec for example, Crantz. vol. 1, ]&amp;gt;. 144, Unt:nl.iiiil; 1 arry. 2cl. Voy.. ]i. f&amp;gt;U3, Iglulik; and Hooper 

 Tents, otc., p. 170, Plover Bay. 



Beasels, Naturalist, Sept. 1884, p. 807. 



Km. 38. Horn clipper. 



