92 THE POINT BARROW ESKIMO. 
89697 [1589], Fig. 22) of perhaps more than one vessel, which appears 
to have been tall and eylindrical, perhaps shaped like a bean-pot, pretty 
smooth inside, and coated with dried oil or blood, black from age. 
The outside is rather rough, and marked with faint rounded transverse 
ridges, as if a large cord had been wound round the vessel while still 
soft. The largest shard has been broken obliquely across and mended 
with two stitches of sinew, and all are very old and black. 
Beechey (Voyage, p. 295) speaks of ‘‘earthen jars for cooking” at 
Hotham Inlet in 1826 and 1827, and Mr. E. W. Nelson has collected a 
Fic. 22._Fragments of pottery. 
few jars from the Norton Sound region, very like what those used at 
Point Barrow must have been. Choris figures a similar vessel in his 
Voyage Pittoresque, Pl. 1 (2d), Fig. 2, from Kotzebue Sound. Metal 
kettles of various sorts are now exclusively used for cooking, and are 
valled by the same name as the old soapstone vessels, which it will be ° 
observed corresponds to the name used by the eastern Eskimo. Light 
sheet-iron camp-kettles are eagerly purchased and they are very glad 
to get any kind of small tin cans, such as preserved meat tins, which 
