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and on the posterior side a handle like projection which extends outward 
for two inches from the general outline of the lamp. Along the opposite 
side the bottom slopes gradually from the border to the side next to 
the projection just described, where its deepest point is found. Just 
below the border is a ridge for supporting the wick, which rests along 
the upper edge of the lamp in front. Plate xxviit, 10, represents a 
wooden bowl-like holder or support for this lamp. It is excavated into 
a smoothly oval, gourd-shape depression, and has the bottom flat to 
insure its retaining an upright position. 
All of the lamps from St Lawrence island are made with nearly flat 
bottoms, with the exception of that shown in plate xxv1u, 4, in which 
the base is rounded. 
Plate xxviu, 12, from Norton bay, is a erescentic toy lamp made of 
stone, with a sharp edge extending almost straight across one side, the 
remainder of the border approaching a semicircle. 
Figure 11 of the same plate is a clay lamp trom St Michael, very 
similar in shape to the preceding; it is the ordinary form used at that 
locality and in other villages of the Unalaklit. 
From St Michael there is a toy lamp (number 43470) made apparently 
by utilizing a natural hollow in a small stone. There is also a small 
toy lamp of stone (uumber 6475), from Cape Darby, of crescentie out- 
line, and sloping from the nearly straight border to the deepest point 
below the rim on the opposite side. 
Figure 6 represents a stone lamp obtained by Mr L. M. Turner at 
St Michael; it is nearly pear-shape in outline, with a smoothly sunken 
depression. 
Figure 2, from Big lake, shows a round, saucer-shape toy lamp of 
clay, with the bottom rounded and the interior regularly depressed. A 
series of three parallel grooves are incised around the outer edge, near 
the border; inside the border are seven incised parallel grooves, suc- 
ceeded by two others which encircle the center of the bottom and are 
counected with the series on the side by four spoke-like rays, each of 
which is formed by a series of four incised lines with an intermediate 
row of dots. 
Similar round, saucer-shape lamps are in common use from the Kus- 
kokwim to the Yukon mouth and are found also along the shore of 
Norton sound to St Michael. One of these lamps from the lower 
Yukon bears Museum number 38078a. It has two grooves encircling 
the outside, near the border; inside are four heavy grooves, and a large 
cross is incised in the center of the bottom. 
DIPPERS, LADLES, AND SPOONS 
In the neighborhood of Norton sound and the lower Yukon the most 
common form of dipper is made by cutting a long, thin strip of spruce, 
three to six inches wide, and fashioning one end into the form of a 
handle; the other end is thinned down to a long, wedge-shape point, 
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