108 



E POINT I5AUR0W ESKIMO. 



used littlr if :it nil siiirc it was m:\iU 

 wliilr(l,roulsHlcisr,,;,t,'d with soot 



^^'h. 



tlic iiisid.' is almost n«'w 

 sc. Tt is (K! iiu-lu's loll-. 

 No. S'.issi [lL;(lO]isainiiii- 

 atinc of No. 898S0, 8-1 

 'iM inches Imij;-, and is made 

 oftbesaiiH' j;Titty stone. 



Suitable inateiial is not 



at hand for the inoper 



F,.Mii TK,v,.in,.i..„,. eoiiii.aris .f the lamps 



used by the dilfeicnt braliehes of the Eskimo race. All travelers who 



have written alM.ilt tliC Eskimo sj.eak of the use ,,f sueh lamps, whieli 



a-re.. in Ix'iiiK sliallow, oblong 'I'^lx'^ "^ ^f"»^'- "'■ ''"■'^'^'■'^' li.i;"i-es 



a. Iaiii]> of soai)stoiie from Tta, Smith 



Sound, closely resemblin.u- Xo. SltSSO, 



;,n<l a, little himi, in the .Aliiseitm fn.m 



(Ireeliland is of essentially the same 



shape, but de.'per. The same form ap- 

 pears at Hudson Strait in the lamps 



collected by Mv. L. M. Tunicr, while 



those used at liibiUk are uearly semi- 



circidar.- South of Kotzebue Sound 



lamps of the shai)e so common in the 



east are used, but these, Mr. Turner in- 

 forms me, are never made of s.mpstone, 



hut alwavs of san.lstoue. shal.-, et.'. 



The peoph. of Ka.liak and the Ahaits 



anciently used lamiis of hard stone, 



ucnerally oval in shape, and sometimes 



made by sliuhtlv hollowin-- out one 



side of a lai-.' roun.l p.-bblc.^^ Such 



a, nm-h lamp was bn.u-ht by iaeut. |'|i I:' J 



Stoney, U. S. Naxy. trom Kotzebue j^i;! j 



Sound. No such hi-hly hnished and i^r., 



elaborate lamps as th<' lar-c house jjj; ;;,,;- 



except by X.irdcnskibld. who li^ures 'K' 

 one from Siberia.' This lamp is inter- 1' ' T 

 ..stiu-astlieonlyouedescribe.l with :i 



led-e .•omparabie to the shelf of X,,. ^^ 



89879. Lamps from thcregioii bet we< '11 



Toint Barrow and Bootliia Felix are especially neeiled to eliK'idate tin 



distribution and development of this utensil. The rudely hollowed peb 



1 Naturalist. Sopterabur, 1884, p. 867, Fig. 2. 

 'Parry. Second Voyage, PI. opposite p. 54S. Fig. 2. 

 'See ball, Alaska, p. 387; anil Petroff, Ili>p.>rt, etc. 

 i,.«lier from Attn anil Ka.liak. 

 ' Vega, Tol. 2, p. 23, Kg. b on p. 22, and diagrams. ]) 



141. S.oalso II. r 



