MURDOCH. } MEAT BOWLS. 89 
Meat bowls.—(Pi'tino, see remarks on p. 88.) Large wooden bowls 
are used to hold meat, fat, etc., both raw and cooked, which are gen- 
erally served on trays. These are of local manufacture and carved 
from blocks of soft driftwood. The four specimens collected are all 
made of cottonwood, and, excepting No. 73570 [408], have been long in 
use and are thoroughly impregnated with grease and blood. F 
No. 89864 [1322] (Fig. 19) will serve as the type. This is deep and 
nearly circular, with flat bottom and rounded sides. The brim is orna- 
mented with seven large sky-blue glass beads imbedded in it at equal 
intervals, except on one side, where there is a broken notch in the place 
of a bead. 
Another, No. 89863 [1320], is larger and not flattened on the bottom, 
and the brim is thinner. 
It is also provided with y 
a bail of seal thong, very 4 
neatly made, as follows: 
One end of the thong 
is knotted with a single 
knot into one of the holes 
so as to leave one long 
part and one short part 
(about 3 inches). The 
long part is then carried 
across and through the 
other hole from the outside, back again through the first hole and again 
across, so that there are three parts of thong stretched across the bowl. 
The end is then tightly wrapped in a close spiral round all the other 
parts, including the short end, and the wrapping is finished off by 
tucking the end under the last turn. The specimen shows the method 
of mending wooden dishes, boxes, ete., which have split. A hole is 
bored on each side of the crack, and through the two is worked a neat 
lashing of narrow strips of whalebone, which draws the parts together. 
In No. 89865 [1321], which has been split wholly ACTOSS, there are six 
such stitches, nearly equidistant, holding the two parts together. This 
bowl is strengthened by neatly riveting a thin flat “strap” of walrus 
ivory along the edge across the end of the crack. These three bowls 
are of nearly the same shape, which is the common one. The new bowl 
(No. 73570 [408]) is of a less common shape, being not so nearly hemis- 
pherical as the others, but shaped more like a common milk pan. It is 
ornamented with straight lines drawn in black lead, dividing the sur- 
face into quadrants. These were probably put on to catch the white 
man’s eye, as the bowl was made for the market. Dishes of this descrip- 
tion are common throughout Alaska (see the National Museum collec- 
tions) and have been noted at Plover Bay.! 
Fic. 19.—Meat bowl. 
1 Hooper, Tents, ete., p.147. 
