68 THE POINT BARROW ESKIMO. 
No. 89292 [1752] (Fig. 7) is an extemporized pipe made in a hurry 
by a man who wished to smoke, but had no pipe. 
It is simply a rough willow stick, slightly whittled into shape, split 
and hollowed out like a pipestem. It is held together by a whipping 
of sinew thread and a lashing of deerskin thong, fastened by a slip- 
Fic. 7.—Pipe made of willow stick. 
knot at one end, the other being tucked in as usual. A small fannel- 
shaped hole at one end serves for a bowl, and shows by its charred 
surface that it has been actually used. This pipe was bought from one 
of the “Nunatanmiun,” who were in camp at Pernyt in 1883, and shows 
its inland origin in the use of the deerskin thong. A coast native would 
have used seal thong. 
The pipe is carried at the girdle, either with the stem thrust inside 
the breeches or ina bag attached to the belt. No. 56744 [55] (Utkiavwin) 
is the only specimen of pipe bag in the collection. It is a long, narrow, 
eylindrie bag, made of four white ermine skins, with two hind legs and 
two tailsforming a fringe round the bottom, which is of dressed deerskin, 
in one piece, flesh side out. The band round the mouth is of gray deer- 
skin, running only two-thirds of the way round, The piece which fills the 
remaining third runs out into the strap for fastening the bag to the 
belt. The ornamental strips on two of the longitudinal seams and 
round the bottom are of deerskin. The seams are all sewed “over and 
over” on the “wrong” side with sinew thread. This is an unusually 
handsome bag. 
Tobaceo is carried in a small pouch of fur attached to the girdle, and 
tucked inside of the breeches, or sometimes worn under the jacket, 
slung round the neck by a string or the necklace. The collection con- 
tains three of these, of which No. 89803 [889] (Fig. 8a) will serve as a 
typical specimen. 
It is made by sewing together two pieces of wolverine fur, hair out, 
of the same shape and size, and round the mouth of this a band of short- 
haired light-colored deerskin, also hair out, with the ends meeting at 
one side in a seam corresponding to one of the seams of the wolverine 
fur, The mouth is ornamented with a narrow band of wolverine fur, 
the flesh side, which is colored red, turned out. It is closed by a 
piece of seal thong about 5 inches long, one end of which is sewed to the 
middle of the seam in the deerskin band and the other passed through 
a large blue glass bead and knotted. This string is wound two or three 
times round the neck of the bag, and the bight of it tucked under the 
