MURDOCH.] TOBACCO POUCHES. 69 
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turns. The seams are all sewed ‘over and over 
with sinew thread. 
These tobacco pouches are usually of a similar pattern, often slightly 
narrowed at the neck, and generally fringed round the mouth with a 
narrow strip of wolverine fur as above. They are often ornamented 
with tags of wolverine fur on the seams (as in No. 89804 [1541, Fig. 
8b]), and borders of different colored skin. No. 89805 [1350] is very 
elaborately ornamented. It is made of brown deerskin, trimmed with 
white deerskin clipped close and bordered with narrow braids of blue 
and red worsted, and little tags of the latter. According to Dr. Simp- 
son,! these bags are called “ del-la-mai/-yu.”. We neglected to obtain 
the proper names for them, as we always made use of the lingua franca 
“tiba’ puksak,” bag for tiba/ (tobacco). No. 89903 [889] contains a spec- 
imen of tobacco as prepared for smoking by the Eskimo. This consists 
on the “ wrong” side 
Fic. 8.—Tobacco pouches. 
of common black Cavendish or “ Navy” tobacco, cut up very fine, and 
mixed with finely chopped wood in the proportion of about two parts of 
tobacco to one of wood. We were informed that willow twigs were used 
for this purpose. Perhaps this may have some slight aromatic flavor, 
as well as serving to make the tobacco go further, though I did not 
recognize any such flavor in some tobacco from an Eskimo’s pouch that 
T once smoked and found exceedingly bad. The smell of an Eskimo’s 
1 Op. cit., p. 243. 
