108 



THE POINT ISARROW ESKIMO. 



used little if at all since it was made over, as the inside is almost new 



while the outside is coated with soot and grease. It is (;? inches long- 



No. 8988 1 [1200] is a mini 

 ature of No. 80880, 8-1 

 inches long, and is made 

 of the same gritty stone. 



Suitable material is not 

 at hand for the proper 

 FIO. 49. Traveling lamp. comparison of the lamps 



used by the different branches of the Eskimo race. All travelers who 



have written about the Eskimo speak of the use of such lamps, which 



agree in being shallow, oblong dishes of stone. Dr. Bessels 1 figures 



a lamp of soapstone from Ita, Smith 



Sound, closely resembling No. 80880, 



and a little lamp in the Museum from 



Greenland is of essentially the same 



shape, but deeper. The same form ap 



pears at Hudson Strait in the lamps 



collected by Mr. L. M. Turner, while 



those used at Iglulik are nearly semi 



circular. 2 South of Kotzebue Sound 



lamps of the shape so common in the 



east are used, but these, Mr. Turner in 



forms me, are never made of soapstone, 



but always of sandstone, shale, etc. 



The people of Kadiak and the Aleuts 



anciently used lamps of hard stone, 



generally oval in shape, and sometimes 



made by slightly hollowing out one 



side of a large round pebble. 3 Such 



a rough lamp was brought by Lieut. 



Stoney, II. S. Nav&amp;gt;, from Kotzebue 



Sound. No such highly finished and 



elaborate lamps as the large house 



lamps at Point Barrow are mentioned 



except by Nordenskiold, who figures 



one from Siberia. 4 This lamp is inter 



esting as the only one described with a 



ledge comparable to the shelf of No. 



80870. Lamps from the region between 



Point Barrow and Boothia Felix are especially needed to elucidate the 



distribution and development of this utensil. The rudely hollowed peb- 



Fin. 50. Socket for blubber holder. 



1 Naturalist. September, 1884, p. 867, Fig. 2. 



* Parry, Second Voyage, 1*1. opposite p. 54S, Fijj, 2. 



3 See Pall, Alaska, p. 387; and Tetroff, Report, etc., p. 141. See also 

 Fischer from Attu and Kndiak. 



4 Vega, vol. 2, p. 23, Fig. b on p. 22, and diagrams, p. 23. 



the collections (if Turner and 



