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MURDOCH.] MKAT l',OWT,.S. 89 



jlfea* 60(rZ.v.— (PT'tuno. sec ivinaiks on p. SS.) Ti;iri;c womlcii how Is 

 are used to liold mrat. f:it, etc.. I„,tli mw and cddked, wliiili arc -cii 

 erally served on trays. Tlicsi^ arc ot local nianuractnrc and carved 

 from blocks of soft driftwood. The lour specimens collccled are all 

 made of Cottonwood. ;ind. exccptin;; >(). 7:;.")70 [iosj, lia\c licin loni; in 

 use and arc tliorougldy iniprci;nafed witli uTeasc and hi 1. 



No. 89804 [1322] (Fi- 1!)) will serve as the type. This is deep and 

 nearly circular, with Hat hottoni and ronndcd sides. The hriin is orna 

 meuted with seven lar^c sl<y hlue ulass heads ind>edded in it atccpial 

 intervals, except on one side, where there is a hroken notch in th(^ iilaec 

 of a bead. 



Another, No. 89803 [132(1], is larjier and not flattened on (lie bottom, 

 and the brim is thinner. 



It is also provided with 1/ 



a bail of seal thoiifj, \ ery 



neatly made, as follow h : „^-:;^ffl^^^| ^~" 



One end of the thony 

 is knotted with a si n file 

 knot into one of the lioh -- 

 so as to leave one lon^ 

 I)art and one slioit jiait 

 (about 3 inches). The 

 long part is then carried 

 across mid throngh tin' 



other hole from th.' outside, hack again through the first hole and again 

 across, so that there are three parts of thong stretched across the bowl. 

 The end is then tightly wrappe<l in a close spiral round all the other 

 parts, including tin' short end, and the wrapping is tiiiishcd off by 

 tucking the end under the last turn. The specimen shows the method 



oC luendini; w leu dishes, boxes, etc., wliich have spUt. A hole is 



horeil on each side of the crack, and through the two is worked a neat 

 lashini; of narrow strips of whalebone, which draws the jiarts togetlier. 

 In No. S'.isi;,-) |i;!21], which has been sjdit wholly across, there are six 

 •such stitches, nearly eipiidistant. holding the two parts together. This 

 bowl is strengthened by neatly riv.ding a thin flat " strap" of walrus 

 ivory along the edge acKPSs the end of the crack. These three bowls 

 are of nearly the same shajic, which is the eomniou one. The new bowl 

 (No. T.'SoTO ] HISj) is of a less common shape, being not so nearly hemis- 

 i)licrical as the others, lint shaped more like a coninioii milk pan. It is 

 ornamented with straight lines drawn in black lead, dividing the sur- 

 face int ladranls. These w.-re probably i.iit on to catch the white 



man's eye. as the howl wasmad<>lor the market. I >ishcs of this .h'scrij.- 

 tioii an- comnioii thioughont Alaska (see the National Museum collec- 

 tions) and have hc.Mi notc.l at 1 Mover Bay,' 



' Hooper, Tents, etc., p.l47. 



