102 THE POINT BARROW ESKIMO. 
apparently softened and molded into shape, cut only on the edges and 
the handle. A stout peg of antler is driven through the handle, 1 inch 
from the tip, and projects behind, serving as a hook by which to hang 
the dipper on the edge of a bucket. The other two are similar in shape 
and size, but No. 89831 [1293] has no peg, and has one side of the handle 
cut into a series of slight notches to keep the hand from slipping, while 
No. 89832 [1577] is rather straighter and has a smaller, shallower bowl, 
and the grip of the handle roughened with transverse grooves. Fig. 
39, No. 89739 [774], is a horn dipper, but one that is very old and of a 
pattern no longer in use. The bow], 
which is much broke» and gapped, 
is oval and deep, with a thick handle 
at one end, running out in the line 
of the axis of the bowl. This handle, 
which is the thick part of the horn, 
near the tip, is flat above, rounded 
below, and has its tip slightly rounded, apparently by a stone tool. 
Just where the bowl and handle meet there is a deep transverse saw- 
cut, made to facilitate bending the handle into its place. The material 
is horn, apparently of the mountain sheep, turned brown by age and 
exposure. The specimen had been long lying neglected round the vil 
lage of Utkiavwin. 
Horn dippers of the same general pattern as these are common 
throughout Alaska. The Museum collection contains a large series of 
such utensils, collected by Mr. Nelson and others. The cups and dip- 
pers of musk-ox horn found by Parry at Iglulik are somewhat different 
in shape.! Those made of the enlarged base of horn’ have a short 
handle and a nearly square bowl, while the hollow top of the horn is 
used for acup without alteration beyond sometimes bending up the 
end, which serves as a handle.’ Curiously enough, cups of this last 
pattern appear not to be found anywhere else except at Plover Bay, 
astern Siberia, where very similar vessels (as shown by the Museum 
collections) are made from the horn of the Siberian mountain sheep. 
An unusual form of dipper is beautifully made of fossil ivory. Such 
cups are rare and highly prized. We saw only three, one from each 
village, Nuwttk, Utkiavwin, and Sidaru, and all were obtained for the 
collection. They show signs of age and long use. They differ some- 
what in shape and size, but each is carved from a single piece of ivory 
and has a large bowl and a straight handle. No. 56535 [871] (Fig. 40), 
which will serve as the type of the ivory dipper (i/musyt, kiligwt’garo), 
is neatly carved from a single piece of fine-grained fossil ivory, yel- 
lowed by age. The handle, polished by long use, terminates in a blunt, 
recurved, tapering hook, which serves the purpose of the peg in the 
ly 
7, 
Fia. 39.—Horn dipper. 
1 Second Voyage, p. 503. 
2See Fig. 26, plate opposite p. 550. 
3See Figs. 8 and 9, opposite p. 548. 
