PORT CLARENCE ESKIMO l8l 



particularly fine bundle consisting of a large harpoon, 

 two shorter spears, a fish spear, and some spear han- 

 dles. Not many stone tools were seen, partly, perhaps, 

 because they had not unpacked their possessions. One 

 man, however, had a fine chisel of jadeite, and we 

 came across two stone pipes of the old type. They pos- 

 sessed a few baskets of 

 good form and quality, of the 

 Point Barrow type. They 

 had one or two adzes made 

 from an ordinary lathing 

 hatchet, the head having 

 been taken off, turned half 

 round and then lashed to the 



. ,. r - ESKIMO STONE PIPE. 



handle so as to form an adze. 



In the piles of packages on the beach were seen many 

 of the sealskin bags in which they carry their possessions. 

 Some of these were made from the skin of the ribbon 

 seal, others of the ringed seal, and others still, of the com- 

 mon Pacific harbor seal. These, skinned out through the 

 mouth, with no other cut in them, and tied up at both 

 ends, are used for a variety of purposes : they serve for 

 whale floats or for oil casks, or, when completely dry, 

 tanned, and turned right side out, for dunnage sacks. 

 When used for this purpose a slit is commonly cut across 

 the breast, from flipper to flipper, and this is laced up. 



Most of these Eskimo had set up ordinary wall tents of 

 canvas or muslin with a low wall and door, so that to en- 

 ter it was necessary to get down on the ground and 

 creep under the wall. There were a few oval frames of 

 willow twigs covered with canvas; and in two or three 

 cases an umiak propped up on its side supported the up- 

 per edge of a sheet of canvas which was pinned to the 

 ground below. 



Planted in the soil behind several of the tents were 



