jiriiPocH.] KTON'I'^ roTS. 



in bothxKits are holes sliowiiiy- where they liaxc been 

 bone stitelies, fniiiiiients of whicli are slill sticUiiiu 

 method of nieiidiiis- soapstoiie vessel ^ I)y sewiiii; is i 

 Parry as praetieeil at Ighilik.' 



No. 898S3 [lOitT) (Fig. 21) is a small jiol of a ipii 

 best uudei-stood from the li-aic llomid the, edge 

 strings nearly eiiuidistaiit. The (lutsidc is rough 

 bottom. One of th<^ sides is niiirh gapped, and i\u- 

 broktm off obli.|nely and mended with a stit( h of u h 

 used in mending these vessels sliows that tliey wei 

 easily replaeed. 1 can 



find no previous mention 1/ 



of the use «d' stone ves- '^ 



sels for cooking on the 

 western eoasf, and there 

 are no speeimetis in tin 

 Nati<.nal .Mu-enm .'olh-e 

 tions. Theoids i:-kin„ 



stone Vev^cK ale a eon]il( 

 ofsmallMonel.oxvKiVom 

 Bristol I'.a.N. TheM- aie 

 rery mn<-li the >liape of 

 the -woodeti bowls ;ib<i\ e dcMi ibed 

 dishesaiidiDt foreooking. a- iheii 

 outside is not blackened. On th 

 very generally employed e\en n< 

 been frcMiiieii'tly des<-"nbed.- The 



in onepol. This 

 nentioned hyCapt. 



le ditlerent shape. 



, e-^perially on tlu' 

 acute tip has been 

 alebone. The care 

 ■e valuable and n(.t 



eb.'enuM^das ,.il 

 hgreaM', whdetnc 

 ■cook.ng pots uu 



th.a-hand, stone co 



b\ fheeaMcin K.^kinios, and I 



o>e resemblance of the jiots t 



Toiiit Harrow to those; 

 with Dr. SiinpM.n's >ta 

 the ea-t. renders i^t \i 

 same ua\. Th.' ab^'ii 

 Alaska is probably di 

 wooded district they ^ 



■scribed by ("apt. Tarry. 1ak« 

 lent ■ that the stone laiiii)s \\( 



dd h; 



that b, 

 ) II ceil < 



ihabilaiit' 

 rivances 



o\-er a lamp. 



i obtained three fragnieiits of pottery, which had every apjiearanci 

 of great age and were sai<l to be |.ieces of a kind of I'ookiiig pot wliieli 

 they used io make ■■long ago. when there weic no iron kettles." Tin 

 material was said t . lie earth (nn'na). b.'ar's blood, and feathers. 

 ami appears to hav been baked. Tli.'y are irregidar fragments (No, 



2d Voyaso 



,-tll.- 



(vol. 1, p. UO); tlir l«SSili;i' li" 

 borl:lllll Gulf); ISim.l, ••(.Vutni 



of Uudson B;iy). 



^Op. cit., pp. '.JOT -'200. 



■•Conipriro tlio ccmont, for joii 

 p. 52G) cousistiuguf "seal's bio 



