108 THE POINT BARROW ESKIMO. 
used little if at all since it was made over, as the inside is almost new 
while the outside is coated with soot and grease. It is 6-3 inches long: 
No. 89881 [1209] is a mini- 
ature of No. 89880, 8-1 
inches long, and is made 
of the saine gritty stone. 
Suitable material is not 
ada at hand for the proper 
Fig. 49.—Traveling lamp. comparison of the Jamps 
used by the different branches of the Eskimo race. All travelers who 
have written about the Eskimo speak of the use of such lamps, which 
agree in being shallow, oblong dishes of stone. Dr. Bessels! figures 
a lamp of soapstone from Ita, Smith 
Sound, closely resembling No. 89880, 
and a little lamp in the Museum from 
Greenland is of essentially the same 
shape, but deeper. The same form ap- 
pears at Hudson Strait in the lamps 
collected by Mr. L. M. Turner, while 
those used at Iglulik are nearly semi- 
circular” South of Kotzebue Sound 
lamps of the shape so common in the 
east are used, but these, Mr. Turner in- 
forms me, are never made of soapstone, 
but always of sandstone, shale, ete. 
The people of Kadiak and the Aleuts 
anciently used lamps of hard stone, 
generally oval in shape, and sometimes 
made by slightly hollowing out one 
side of a large round pebble? Such 
a rough lamp was brought by Lieut. 
Stoney, U. 8S. Navy, from Kotzebue 
Sound. No such highly finished and 
elaborate lamps as the large house 
lamps at Point Barrow are mentioned 
except by Nordenskidld, who figures 
one from Siberia. This lamp is inter- 
esting as the only one described with a 
ledge comparable to the shelf of No. 
89879. Lampsfromtheregion between 
Point Barrow and Boothia Felix are especially needed to elucidate the 
distribution and development of this utensil. The rudely hollowed peb- 
Fic. 50.—Socket for blubber holder. 
' Naturalist, September, 1884, p. 867, Fig. 2. 
? Parry, Second Voyage, Pl. opposite p. 548, Fig. 2. 
%See Dall, Alaska, p. 387; and Petroff, Report, ete., p. 141. See also the collections of Turner and 
Fischer from Attu and Kadiak. 
‘Vega, vol. 2, p. 23, Fig. b on p. 22, and diagrams, p. 23. 
