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up with a water-ladle with a long handle (figs. 263, 264). The 

 ladles are made of wood, horn, or the like. Sometimes they use a 

 drinking-tube of wood wdth a mouth-piece of bone (fig. 274). One 

 tub had a suction pipe, which passed through one of the staves, 

 and wdiich carried a mouth-piece of bone at the top (fig. 280 b, 

 cf. 279). I think that the water-tubs as a general rule can hold 

 half a barrel of water. 



Over the lamp hangs down from the roof a drying-frame 

 of wooden sticks (fig. 260), from which the cooking pot hangs in 

 such a manner, that it can be brought to rest just over the lamp, 

 w^hen wanted, and afterwards moved back. The pots are deep, 

 oval vessels, cut thin out of pot-stone (figs. 257, 258). They are 

 hung by seal thongs, affixed to holes drilled in the stone. In 

 the pots they use dippers, ladles and spoons of different shapes and 

 sizes, either cut out of wood (figs. 269, 271, 272) or made of the 

 shoulder-blades of bears (fig. 265). — The drying-frame is used for 

 drying boots and other articles of apparel. Other apparatus on 

 w^hich various objects are hung for drying, are placed under the 

 roof, whereever there is room for them. 



The room under the platform is used for keeping skins and 

 provisions which the people have brought into the house. This is 

 also the place for the urine tubs, blubber buckets, and meat-trays. 



The urine tubs are of different size (figs. 282 to 284), but as a 

 rule smaller than the Avater tubs. They are similar in make to tlie 

 latter, but have no cross-piece, and are used for the preparation of skin. 



The blubber buckets (fig. 286) are made of thin boards 

 bent into oval forms and pegged or sew^ed together, and fastened 

 with wooden nails onto a bottom piece, which is thick at the edge. 

 These buckets are found in many shapes and sizes, and are formed 

 of deal boards scraped thin, which are bent by being heated over 

 lamps, after having been steeped in brine. They are carried by raw- 

 hide handles, on whichs beads are strung. 



The meat dishes are cut out of a single piece of w^ood. As in 

 the case of the tubs, small pieces of bones are laid in their upper 

 edges to prevent them from getting frayed (fig. 285). They are 

 found in all sizes, and are similar in shape to our clay dishes. 

 We have seen a meat or blubber trough of this kind made by 

 hollowing out a pine trunk. It was three feet long and 1 foot broad. 

 Small bowls are made in the same manner as large buckets and 

 vessels, or else of whalebone (fig. 286). A small box is made of the 

 jaw of a narwhal, and has a wooden bottom and lid (fig. 287 b). 



For carrying tubs and vessels which are too large for the arms 

 to clasp, is used a carrying strap, consisting of two bear's teeth at- 



