YAKUTAT SEALING VILLAGE 



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wide and eight or ten feet long, laid on the framework, 

 and held in place by slender poles placed over them. 

 This bark must of course be brought from a distance, 



PRIMITIVE BARK SHELTER, YAKUTAT BAY. 



since trees large enough to furnish such bark do not grow 

 in the neighborhood. At most of these bark shelters, skins 

 of the hair seal still on the drying frames, were leaning 

 against the wall, outside, and in some cases had been 

 thrown up on the roof. 



In the center of this shelter is 

 the circle of stones forming the 

 fire place, and over the fire, 

 resting on the stones, is the pot 

 full of strips of seal blubber, fi 

 from which the oil is being 

 tried out. The woman who 

 watches the pot from time to 

 time ladles out the oil into 

 small kegs and old tin cans, or 

 rarely into ornamented rectangular boxes of a primitive 

 type. These boxes, as is well known, are made in three 



OIL BOX. 



