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tauik has a rounded tip and scalloped handle, as shown in the accom- 
panying figure 20. 
WOODEN DISHES, TRAYS, AND BUCKETS 
The Tinné of the lower Yukon, adjoining the territory occupied by 
the Eskimo, are expert in woodworking. They fashion from spruce 
large numbers of wooden dishes, buckets, trays, and ladles, which they 
ornament with red and black paint, and the maker usually places bis 
totem mark on each utensil. They make trips down the river for the 
purpose of selling their products to the Eskimo, and travel as far as St 
Michael on the seacoast. In addition to this trade with the Eskimo, 
the articles manufactured by these people are distributed over a much 
greater extent of territory by means of intertribal trading among the 
Eskimo themselves. 
Besides the ware of this kind obtained from the Tinné, the Eskimo 
make similar articles themselves, which are as a rule equally well made. 
Examples of this class of work are shown in the ladles, dippers, and 
spoons already described and illustrated. The simplest form of tray 
or dish made by the Eskimo is that eut from a single piece of wood, 
and this variety of utensil is found over a wide area. 
Plate xxx1, 1, represents a rude bowl-shape wooden dish from Iey 
cape, Slightly flattened below to enable it to stand safely. 
Figure 2 of the same plate, from St Lawrence ‘island, is a slightly 
pear-shape, dipper-like dish, with a flattened bottom and a short, pro- 
jecting handle on one side. This is rather rudely made, as are all the 
articles obtained on this island. 
Figure 9, from the same island, is a tray-like dish with a long, 
obovate outline above, and slightly flattened below, with the handle 
projecting upright from one end. It is rudely made and is without 
ornamentation. 
Figure 6, from the lower Yukon, is a handsomely made, tray-like dish, 
cut from a single piece and bordered around the edge, outside and in, 
with a band of red paint, inside of which are two parallel narrow black 
lines connected by similar straight crosslines. 
Figure 5, from Chalitmut, is a deep tray, oval in outline and having 
the head of an animal at one end, which serves as a handle. At the 
other end is a skort, quadrate projection representing the animal’s 
tail. It is bordered around by a band of red, succeeded by an uncol- 
ored area and a red line in a groove around the outside. The bottom, 
both within and without, is uncolored. : 
Figure 4, from Big lake, is a smoothly finished, deep, tray-like dish. 
The rim is bordered with red and the inside 1s painted black. At one 
end projects a carving representing the head and neck of a human being. 
The face is turned upward and a short string of beads hangs trom each 
ear. Two white beads are inlaid to represent labrets, and a blue bead 
hangs from the pierced septum. A cireular piece of wood was cut from 
the rear of the head, through which the latter was excavated, and the 
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