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to the wearer. These weasel belts were most frequently seen among 
people from the head of Norton bay and Kaviak peninsula, where 
they seemed to be particularly prized. The people from that section 
offered as much as two dollars’ worth of furs for the skin and the head 
of a weasel for this purpose. 
UTENSILS AND IMPLEMENTS 
LAMPS 
Throughout western Alaska, including the islands of Bering strait, 
and upon the coast of Siberia, open lamps are used for burning seal oil; 
they are made of clay, soap- 
stone, or other easily worked 
stone, and present considera- 
ble variety of form. 
At Point Barrow I saw a 
fine soapstone lamp (figure 
18), 2 feet long and 10 inches 
broad, weighing about 30 
pounds. The owner refused Fic. 18—Lamp from Point Barrow. 
to sell it, but the accompany- 
ing sketch made at the time shows the manner in which it is sub- 
divided by ridges of stone, with sunken interspaces; it is symmetrical 
in form and suboval in outline, with the convexity greatest on one side. 
At Hast cape, Siberia, | saw a stone lamp lying upon a grave, just 
back of the village, which is similar in outline to the Point Barrow 
lamp described, but it lacked the subdivisions 
across the interior; it is about 15 inches long and 
proportionately broad. 
The specimen illustrated in plate xxv1im1, 3, was 
found on the eastern coast of Siberia; it is made of 
stone, is suboval in outline, deeply excavated at 
the back, and slopes upward to a broad ledge in 
eae tee front; this ledge is crossed by a ridge of stone cut 
and stand (fall size). through in the center for holding the wick. 
On the Diomede islands similar lamps were found 
in use, but a child’s toy, made from ivory in shape of a lamp, was 
obtained on one of these islands, which shows a different form (figure 
19). It is suboval in outline and deepest in the center, with a ridge 
extending along each side just above the bottom, and with a groove 
cut through the middle of each side for the wick. This lamp is repre- 
sented as standing upon a stool like frame, which is supported by four 
legs, with a crosspiece on each side and two crosspieces on the ends to 
hold the legs in place. 
An example (number 64225) from Hotham inlet is of stone, subtri- 
angular in outline, with the convexity greatest on one side, toward which 
