MURDOCH.) LADLES—LAMPS. 105 
a typical bone ladle. The material is rather coarse-grained, compact 
bone from a whale’s rib or jawbone. No. 89414 [1013] closely resembles 
this but is a trifle larger. The other two specimens are interesting as 
showing an attempt at ornamentation. No. $9412 [1102] (Fig. 45, from 
Nuwiik) is earved smoothly into a rude, flattened figure of a whale (Ba- 
laena mysticetus). The flukes 
form the handle and the belly 
is hollowed out into the bowl 
of the ladle. No. 89413 [934] 
(Fig. 46, from Utkiavwin) has 
the handle carved into a rude 
bear’s head, which has the eyes, 
nostrils, and outline of the 
mouth incised and filled in with 
dark oil dregs. All these ladles have the curved side of the bowl on the 
left, showing that they were meant to be used with the right hand. The 
name, kiliu/te, obtained for these ladles is given in the vocabulary col- 
lected by Dr. Oldmixon as “scraper,” which seems to be the etymological 
meaning of the word. These implements may be used for scraping 
blubber from skins, or the name may correspond in meaning to the 
Fia. 45.—Bone ladle in the form of a whale. 
Fic. 46.—Bone ladle. 
cognate Greenlandic kiliortit, ‘a scraper; especially a mussel shell (a 
natural seraper).” The resemblance of these ladles to a mussel shell is 
sufficiently apparent for the name to be applied to them. Indeed, they 
may have been made in imitation of mussel shells, which the Eskimo, 
in all probability, like so many other savages, used for ladles as well as 
scrapers. 
MISCELLANEOUS HOUSEHOLD UTENSILS. 
Lamps (kédlé)—Mention has already been made of the stone lamps 
or oil-burners used for lighting and warming the houses, which, in Dr. 
Simpsoun’s time, were obtained by trading from the “Kfinima/dlin,” who 
in turn procured them from other Eskimo far to the east. These are 
flat, shallow dishes, usually like a gibbous moon in outline, and are of 
two sizes: the larger house lamp, 18 inches to 3 feet in length, and the 
small traveling lamp, 6 or 8 inches long. The latter is used in the tem- 
porary snow huts when a halt is made at night. In each house are 
usually two lamps, one standing at each side, with the eurved side 
against the wall, and raised by blocks a few inches from the floor. In 
one large house, that of old Yiksi/na, the so-called “chief,” at Nuwik, 
