MURDOCH. ] BUCKETS AND TUBS. 87 
seam close to the outer end, which is steeply chamfered off and painted 
red, and the other 1-6 inches from this. Both seams are countersunk in 
shallow grooves on the outer part. The bucket is ornamented with a 
shallow groove running round the top, and a vertical groove between 
the seams. These grooves and the seam grooves are painted red. The 
bail is of stout iron wire fastened on by two ears of white walrus ivory 
cut into a rude outline of a whale, and secured by neat lashings of whale- 
bone passing through corresponding holes in the ear and the bucket. 
The bucket has been some time in use. 
No. 56763 [369] is a bucket with a bail, and very nearly of the same 
shape and dimensions. It has, however, a bail made of rope yarns 
braided together, and the ears are plain flat pieces of ivory. Buckets 
of this size, with bails, are especially used for water, particularly for 
bringing it from the ponds and streams. The name “ kfitaur” corre- 
sponds to the Greenlandic katanak, ‘a water-pail with which water is 
brought to the house.” ! 
No. 89891 [1735] (Fig. 17), which is nearly new, is a very large tub 
(ili/kpain, which appears to mean “a capacious thing ”) without a bail, 
and is 11 inches high and 20 in diameter. 
The sides are made of two pieces of plank 
of equal length, whose ends overlap alter- 
nately and are sewed together as before. 
The bottom is in two pieces, one large and 
one small, neatly fastened together with 
two dowels, and is not only held in by havy- 
ing its edge chamfered to fit the croze, but 
is pegged in with fourteen small treenails. 
The seams, edges, and two ornamental 
grooves around the top are painted red as 
before. 
No, 89890 [1753] is smaller, 9°7 inches high and 14-5 in diameter. It 
has no bail, and is ornamented with two grooves, of which the lower is 
painted with black lead. The bottom is in two equal pieces, fastened 
together with three dowels. This is a new tub and has the knotholes 
neatly plugged with wood. There are a number of these tubs in every 
house. They are known by the generic name of imusiaru (which is ap- 
plied also to a barrel, and which means literally “an unusual cup or 
dipper,” small cups of the same shape being called. imusyi), but have 
special names signifying their use. For instance, the little tub about 6 
inches in diameter, used by the males as a urinal, is called kivwit 
(“the place for urine.”) One of these large tubs always stands to 
catch the drip from the lump of snow in the house, and those of the 
largest size, like No. 89891 [1735], are the kind used as chamber pots. 
Vessels of this sort are in use throughout Alaska, and have been ob- 
served among the eastern Eskimo where they have wood enough to 
Fic. 17.—Large tub. 
1Grenl. Ordbog., p. 135. 
