86 THE POINT BARROW ESKIMO. 
what similar.! Small rude tents only large enough to hold one or two 
people are used as habitations for women during confinement, and for 
sewing rooms when they are working on deerskins in the autumn. 
Tents for the latter purpose are called “su/dliwin,” the place for 
working. 
HOUSEHOLD UTENSILS. 
FOR HOLDING AND CARRYING FOOD, WATER, ETC. 
Canteens (i/mutin).—None of the canteens, the use of which has been 
described above (under “ Drinks”), were obtained for the collection. 
They were seen only by Lieut. Ray and Capt. Herendeen, who made 
winter journeys with the natives. They describe them as made of seal- 
skins and of small size. I find no published mention of the use of such 
santeens among the Eskimo elsewhere, except in Baffin Land. 
Wallets, ete—Food and such things are carried in roughly made bags 
of skin or cloth, or sometimes merely wrapped up in a piece of skin or 
entrail, or whatever is convenient. Special bags, however, are used for 
bringing in the small fish which are caught through the ice. These are 
flat, about 18 inches or 2 feet square, and made of an oblong piece of 
sealskin, part of an old kaiak cover, doubled at the bottom and sewed up 
each side, with a thong to sling it over the shoulders. 
Buckets. and tubs.—Buekets and tubs of various sizes are used for 
holding water and other fluids, blubber, flesh, entrails, etc., in the house, 
and are made by bending a thin 
plank of wood (spruce or fir) round 
a nearly circular bottom and sew- 
ing the ends together. These are 
probably all obtained from the Nu- 
natanmiun, as it would be almost 
impossible to procure suitable 
wood at Point Barrow. The col- 
lection contains four specimens— 
two tubs and two buckets. 
No. 56764 [370] (Fig. 16) will 
serve as a type of the water bucket 
(ktitau’e). A thin strip of spruce 
8 inches wide is bent round a cireu- 
lar bottom of the same wood 104 
inches in diameter. The edge of 
the latter is slightly rounded and 
fits into a Shallow eroze one-fourth inch from the lower edge of the strip. 
The ends of the strip overlap 34 inches and are sewed together with 
narrow strips of whalebone in two vertical seams of short stitches, one 
Fia. 16.—W ooden bucket. 
1 See Parry’s 2nd Voyage, p. 271 and plate opposite. Compare also Chappell, ‘Hudson Bay,” pp. 75- 
77, figure on p. 75. 
2When out traveling, they mostly carry their water supply in a seal’s stomach, prepared for the 
purpose,” Kumlien, op. cit., p.41. Compare also Hall, Arctic Researches, p. 584. 
