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THE POINT BARROW ESKIMO. 



89697 [1589], Fig. -'I') 

 to have been tall and. 

 siiiootU inside, and (■( 

 Tlieontsideisnitliei-] 



lici hajts nioie than one vessel, which appears 

 indiical, perhaps shaped hke a beau-pot, pretty 

 'd with dried oil or blixid, black from age. 

 gh, and marked witli faint rounded transverse 



ridges, as if a large cord had been wound round the vessel while still 

 soft. The largest shard has been broken oblitiuely across and mended 

 with two stitches of sinew,' and all are very old and black. 



P.eechey (Voyage, ]>. '_'!).">) speaks of "earthen jars lor cooking" at 

 Uotham inlet in isi'fj and isi'7, and .Mr. E. W. Nelson has eoUected a 



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few jars from the Noiton Sound region, very like what those used at 

 Point Barrow nnist have been. Clioris figures a similar vessel in his 

 Voyage Pittores(|ue, IM. lu (iM), h'ig. -, from Kotzebue Sound. Metal 

 kettles of various sorts are now exclusively used for cooking, and are 

 called by the same umuo. as the old soapstone vessels, which it will be 

 observed corresponds to the name used by the eastern Eskimo. Light 

 sheet iron camii-kettles are eagerly purchased and they are very glad 

 to get any kind of small tin cans, such as ijreserved meat tins, which 



