102 THK POINT BARROW ESKIMO. 



apparently softened and molded into slia]&amp;gt;e, cut only on tlie edges and 

 the handle. A stout peg of antler is driven through the handle, 1 inch 

 from the tip, and projects behind, serving as a hook by which to hang 

 the dipper on the edge of a bucket. The other two are similar in shape 

 and size, but No. 89831 [1U93] has no peg, and has one side of the handle 

 cut into a series of slight notches to keep the hand from slipping, while 

 No. 89832 [1577] is rather straighter and has a smaller, shallower bowl, 

 and the grip of the handle roughened with transverse grooves. Pig. 

 39, No. 89739 [77-lj, is a horn dipper, but one that is very old and of a 



pattern no longer in use. The bowl, 

 which is much broken and gapped, 

 is oval and deep, with a thick handle 

 at one end, running out in the line 

 of the axis of the bowl. This handle, 

 which is the thick part of the horn, 



Fio. 39. Horn dipper. 



near the tip, is flat above, rounded 



below, and has its tip slightly rounded, apparently by a stone tool. 

 Just where the bowl and handle meet there is a deep transverse saw- 

 cut, made to facilitate, bending the handle into its place. The material 

 is horn, apparently of the mountain sheep, turned brown by age and 

 exposure. The specimen had been long lying neglected round the vil 

 lage of Utkiavwin. 



Horn dippers of the same general pattern as these are common 

 throughout Alaska. The Museum collection contains a large series ol 

 such utensils, collected by Mr. Nelson and others. The cups and dip 

 pers of musk-ox horn found by Parry at Iglulik are somewhat different 

 in shape. 1 Those made of the enlarged base of horn 2 have a short 

 handle and a nearly square bowl, while the hollow top of the horn is 

 used for a cup without alteration beyond sometimes bending up the 

 end, which serves as a handle. 3 Curiously enough, cups of this last 

 pattern appear not to be found anywhere else except at Plover Bay, 

 eastern Siberia, where very similar vessels (as shown by the Museum 

 collections) are made from the horn of the Siberian mountain sheep. 

 An unusual form of dipper is beautifully made of fossil ivory. Such 

 cups are rare and highly prized. We saw only three, one from each 

 village, Nuwuk, Utkiavwin, and Sidaru, and all M r ere obtained for the 

 collection. They show signs of age and long use. They differ some 

 what in shape and size, but each is carved from a single piece of ivory 

 and has a large bowl and a straight handle. No. 50535 [371] (Fig. 40), 

 which will serve as the type of the ivory dipper (i musyu, kiligwu garo), 

 is neatly carved from a single piece of fine-grained fossil ivory, yel 

 lowed by age. The handle, polished by long use, terminates in a blunt, 

 recurved, tapering hook, which serves the purpose of the peg in the 



1 Second Voyage, p. 503. 



*St O Fig. 2G, plate opposite p. 550. 



&amp;gt;Sec Figs. 8 ami 9, opposite p. 548. 



