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W. Thalbitzer 



The water-tubs have their fixed place in the house in front of 

 the main platform and stand beside the lamps on the same plat- 

 forms as these or on the floor. They are rarely filled by fetching 

 the water in a bucket (of the pertaq-type) from a river, but as a 

 rule by being filled with large pieces of ice or frozen snow which 

 slowly melt in the heated air of the house or tent. The urine-tubs 

 occur in two different sizes; the smaller (always private property) 

 stand on the narrow side-platform at the side-walls of the house; 

 the larger, which are used in common and of which there are two 

 or three in each house, stand on the floor between the side-platform 

 and the window-platform. During the summer the large urine-tubs 



a b 



Fig. 281. Drinking cups with ivory reliefs. (Holm coll.)' 



have their place in the fore-room of the tent in front of the tent- 

 curtain. 



Meat-dishes and plates (p. 39). — For the common serving of 

 the meat deep wooden dishes or trays, such as seen in figs. 285 a, b, c, 

 are used whereas the shallower plates (iluliaainät, d, e, f) are for 

 individual use during the meal, or for two or three persons. 



Per/aq-dishes, buckets and drinking-cups (fig. 286) are mentioned 

 together owing to the common construction: a strip of wood or 

 whale-bone bent round a circular or oval bottom to which it is 

 nailed, while the overlapping ends are sewn or nailed together, gen- 

 erally by two parallel seams (frequently sewn with whalebone fibre 

 along the outer seam and pegged with wooden nails along the inner 

 one). According to the breadth (height) of the strip the vessel is 



