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mens (Plate XXI c), to civilized patterns. They are used for 

 holding food and oil. The older shape is a shallow oval. Wooden 

 spoons {eli'psit) now in use (Plate XXI a and b), of the same 

 material as the dishes, represent the ancient bailer. The Labrador 

 Eskimo possess an unusual ability for carving in wood (see section 

 on art), and reproduce in that material many of the household 

 objects of musk-ox, horn, and whalebone found in Baffin island. 

 Buckets and cups are made of strips of larch wood bent circular 

 and bottomed, and held tight with wooden or ivory pegs. Some 

 older specimens from the graves are of whalebone. They also 

 make buckets and cups of tanned sealskin sewn with sinew. 

 These are common throughout the Hudson Bay country. The 

 specimens illustrated (Plate XX a and b) are from Chesterfield 

 inlet, but do not differ from those found in Labrador. The 

 cup or bailer in Labrador usually has a thong handle. 



SCRAPERS. 



The skin scraper, used on sealskins and deerskins, is found in 

 Labrador in three definite types. Type I, a form developed 



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Figure 29. Bone scraper made from the jaw-bone of a narwhal, from Cape 



Chidley. Length 5 inches. 

 Collected by E. W. Hawkes.Di vision of Anthropology, Museum No. IV B. 477. 



from the scapula of the reindeer (Plate XXII A e), which is itself 

 often used in the summer camp, is represented by the modern 



