[179]. Beechey’s Voyage, p. 572.
[180]. This specimen was broken in transportation, and the pieces received different Museum numbers. It is now mended with glue.
[181]. Compare these pots with the two figured in Parry’s 2d Voyage (plate opposite p. 160). The smaller of these has a ridge only on the end, but on the larger the ridge runs all the way round. The plate also shows how the pots were hung up. See also Fig. 1, plate opposite p. 548.
[182]. 2d Voyage, p. 502.
[183]. I need only refer to Crantz, who describes the “bastard-marble kettle,” hanging “by four strings fastened to the roof, which kettle is a foot long and half a foot broad, and shaped like a longish box” (vol. 1, p. 140); the passage from Parry’s 2d Voyage, referred to above; Kumlien, op. cit., p. 20 (Cumberland Gulf); Boas, “Central Eskimo,” p. 545; and Gilder, Schwatka’s Search, p. 260 (West Shore of Hudson Bay).
[184]. Op. cit., pp. 267-269.
[185]. Compare the cement for joining pieces of soapstone vessels mentioned by Boas (“Central Eskimo,” p. 526) consisting of “seal’s blood, a kind of clay, and dog’s hair.”
[186]. See Further Papers, etc., p. 909.
[187]. Hooper, Tents, etc., p. 57.
[188]. We saw this done on No. 56634 [83], the head and haft of which were brought in separate and put together by an Eskimo at the station.