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fruits (berries and blubber mixed). It could also be used for other 

 things, for example, scraping the fat off skins. 



Figs. 263a and b show some drinking cups of bone with bot- 

 toms of wood and long wooden handles. They are used both as 

 dippers and cups. Fig. 264 is a similar drinking cup 

 (for a child?) made of bone in two pieces. The sides 

 /f of the cup are always made of a hollow bone sawed 



across so as to form a tube. 



Fig. 266. 

 Meat and 

 blubber fork. 

 Nualik. (Am- 

 drup coll.). 



Fig. 267. 



A child's 



drinking cup 



(fragment). 

 Nualik. (Am- 

 drup coll.). 



Fig. 268. Dipper of wood for seal oil. Nualik. (Amdrup coll.). ^Iio. 



Fig. 269. Soup-ladle of wood. Nualik. (Amdrup coll.). ^iio. 



Fig. 270. A child's dipper for drinking water. 

 Nualik. (Amdrup coll.). ^/n. 



Fig. 267 is a fragment of a dipper and drinking 

 cup from the "dead house" of the same kind as the 

 above-mentioned, but of wood instead of bone. It is 

 characteristic of the two cups that the handle is in- 

 serted into two holes, bored opposite each other in the 

 sides of the cup, so that it goes right across the cup. 

 This is not the case with a larger water-dipper of wood also found 

 in the "dead house" (Amdrup coll. no. 526). The holder of the 

 dipper has here the same shape as the pertaq vessels in fig. 286 and 

 consists of a thin-scraped board or hoop of wood folded back on 



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