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THE PdINT HARROW ESKIMO. 



Potn itf stoiii iniii (illiir niiitrriids (u'tkuxln). — In t'oniicr times, ]iots of 

 soaiistdiic rrsciuiilin.u' Iliosc ciiqjloyed by the. eastern Eskimo, and 

 j)nil>al)ly obtained from the same region as the lamps, were used for 

 eooldnii food at I'oinI I'.arrow. lint the natives have SO long been able 

 to iiroeure metal kettles diicetlyor indireetly from the whites (Elson 

 foniid eo]i|ier kettles at Point Harrow in 1826)' thilt the former have 

 gone wholly out of use, ami at t lie jiresent day fragments only are to be 

 found. There are four such fragments in the collection, of whicli three 

 are, of the same inodel and one ciuite different. 



No. 89885-6 [1559] (Fig. 20) is sutticiently whole to show the pattern 

 of the first type. It is of soft gray soapstone. A large angidar gap is 

 broken from the miihlle of one side, taking out about half of this side, 



and a small angular 



I'.isn, 



On^ 



<lo« 



nd 



a str 

 i-s to 



edge earned ron 

 side. This end ; 

 as there are holes for si 

 upiier edge of the brol 



theoth.-r sid • the ^ 



low transverse ridge ai 



bored one-fourth to oi 

 bored obliquely tliroui; 

 holes in the sides close 

 place of these. The \h 

 slightly r(mnd.'d. Its 

 so<,t and .rusted with oil and dirt.- 



Xos. s'.issd |r.s(i| and S0S6S \um;\ 



thv broken ends <,f pots slightly s: 



ISS tl 



. the .'or 

 is neatly 



to tl 



the end. ' Tl 



stl 



red thnmgh the 



lete. They are 

 i\e, but of pre- 

 rse ridge across 

 s as before, and 



1 Beechey's Voyage, p. 572. 



^Tliis specimen was Ijroken 

 It ia now mended witli glue. 



3 Compare these pots witli t.h 

 of tlifsf? li.is .a ridge only on tli. 

 also allows how the pota were \ 



transporlatH 

 wo figured ii 



ved different llu 



P.arry'a 2d Voyage (plate opposite p. 160). 

 ■ end, but on tlie larger the ridge runs all tlll^ way roiiu 

 iiiug up. See also Fig. 1, itlate opposite p. 548. 



