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size by E.Ditlevsen, tlie artist of the Expedition. Two of the pieces 

 form the round bottom of the vessel, the diameters of which are 

 4*1 and 4"8cm; the remaining pieces build up the curved sides; 

 the height of the vessel is S'l cm. There is one of these side- 

 pieces (staves) in the vessel which is formed in a different way 

 than the other pieces, being more straight, and moreover ap- 

 parently made of a different kind of wood; perhaps it did not 

 originally belong to the whole, but was fitted in later. 



Inside, at the bottom, there runs round the side of the 

 vessel a deep groove into which the edges of the bottom fit, 

 and under which a circular foot has been carved out in the 

 lower part of the staves. 



On the side of the vessel, exteriorly, is seen, a little above 

 the middle, a broad shallow groove which passes right round 

 and was apparently intended for a hoop for holding the pieces 

 together. There are no holes, or vestiges of nails having been 

 employed. 



This little work of art was probably carved as a model 

 of a urine-tub for the house, to be given as a present to 

 a child. 



Inv. Amd. 53 (Fig. 26) is a whalebone-dish of the usual 

 type known from all Eskimo districts (Murdoch ^), and called 

 by the Greenlanders pertaq (cf. Appendix, fig. 95). It consists 

 of a piece of whalebone bent double, and fastened with tree- 

 nails on to a wooden bottom. 



The oblong elliptical bottom made of wood of fir or pine, 

 circ. 29 cm long, 1 2*5 cm wide, is carved out of one piece, and 

 is absolutely flat. In its edge are seen six holes for pegs, and 

 four of these pegs are still sticking in them. All these holes 

 lie on one half of the edge of the bottom; on the other half 

 the whalebone rim has not been pegged on to the bottom, but 

 merely secured by the force of the pressure. The flat surface 



Murdoch I, 88, figs. 18 and 101. Cf. Nelson 71. Boas 11, 44 and 73. 

 Holm, PI. 25. 



