68 THE POINT BAKKOW KSKIMO. 



No. SilL'ltL' [1751.'] (Fig. 7) is an fxtciiiiioiizcd pipe iiiadi' in a liiiiTy 

 by a mail who wislied to smoke, but liad no pipe. 



It is sini])ly a ron,!;b willow stick, slightly whittled inio slia|)e, split 

 and hollowed out like a iiipesteni. It is held to-clher li> a whipping 

 of sinew thread and a lashing of ileerskin thong, fastened by ii slip- 



Pipe madtj of willow stick. 



knot at one end, the other being tucked in as usual. A small funnel- 

 sliape<l hole at one end serves lor a bowl, and shows by its charred 

 surface that it has Ixen actually used. This pipe was bought fi'Oin one 

 of the "Nunatauiuiun." who were in camp at Pernyii in 1883, and shows 

 its inland oiigiu in the use of the deerskin thong. A coast native would 

 have used seal thong. 



The jiiiii' is cai rie<l at the girdle, either with the stem thrust inside 

 the breeches or in a bag atta<dicd to the belt. No. r.(;744 [55] (Utkiavwm) 

 is the only specimen of ])ipe liag in the i-olleetion. It is a long, narrow, 

 eylindric bag, made of four wliite einiine skins, with two hind legs and 

 two tails forming a fringe round t lie bottom, whi<'li isof dres.seddeer.skiu, 

 in one piece, tiesh side out. The band round the mouth is of graydeer- 

 skin,ruiiningoiilyt\\ci I birds of the way round. Thepiece which fills the 

 remaining third runs out into the strajt for fa.stening the bag to the 

 belt. The ornamental strips on two of the longitudinal seams and 

 round the bottom are of deerskin. The seams are all sewed "over and 

 over" on the "wrong" side with sinew thread. This is an unusually 

 handsome bag. 



Tobacco is carried in a small pouch of fur attached to the girdle, and 

 tucked inside of the breeches, or sometimes worn under the jacket, 

 slung lound the neck liy a string or the necklace. The collection con- 

 tains thiee of tliese. of which No. S080.3 [8,sil] (Fig. ,S(/) will serve as a 



It is mailc by sewing together two pieces of wolverine fur, hair out, 

 of the same shajx' and size, and round the mouth of this a band of short- 

 haired lightcohucd deerskin, also hair out, with the ends meeting at 

 oiK^ side in a seam corresiioiiding to one of the seams of the wolverine 

 fill-. The mouth is ornamented with a narrow liand of wolverine fur, 

 the tlesh side, which is colored red, turned (mt. It is <dosed by a 

 liiece of seal thong about ."> inches long, one end of which is sewed to the 

 middle of the seam in the deerskin band and the other passed through 

 a large blue glass bead and knotted. This string is wound two or three 

 times round the neck of the bag, and the bight of it tucked under the 



