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Image missingFig. 95.Musk ox dipper. Image missingFig. 96.Meat knife. the musk ox is exterminated or at any rate very rare in their territory, the Iglulik Eskimos often buy these dippers from the Netsiliks.

Formerly they also used dippers of sealskin with a bone edging, or without this. A model of a water dipper from the Aivilingmiut, Qajûvfik, is of bearded-seal skin with a flat, oval bottom, 14 × 9 cm, and vertical sides; a stick of wood, 39 cm long, serves as a handle. A model from the Iglulingmiut, Qajûvfik, comes to a point at the bottom; diameter at the top 10 cm, 10 cm deep; a seal rib, 20 cm long, serves as a handle.

For eating thick blood soup, etc. they use small, flat spoons (alûn) of antler. One of these spoons from Ponds Inlet is 18 cm long, of which the bowl, 2½ cm wide, accounts for 5 cm. Boas[1] figures a small spoon of musk-ox horn. But nowadays most Eskimo families have European spoons and forks.

Parry[2] figures cups (imuseq), formed of the hollowed-out points of musk-ox horn, the point itself forming a handle, which is furnished with a row of notches, and he mentions. "circular and oval vessels of whalebone of various sizes" and "a number of smaller vessels of skin sewed neatly together". According to an old Eskimo woman, baleen cups were still in use at Iglulik fifty years ago.

Water pails (qátaq) of sealskin were used in former times. Boas[3] figures one of these, and Parry[4] mentions "a large basket of the same material (skin) resembling a common sieve in shape, but with the bottom close and tight". A newly made water pail from the Iglulingmiut, Qajûvfik, is of black, unhaired seal skin with the hair side inwards. It consists of an oval bottom, 23 × 26 cm, formed of two pieces and vertical sides of two pieces sewn together with a longitudinal seam; 22 cm high. The upper rim, 1 cm wide, is bent over and the edge sewn down on the outer side. A handle,

  1. ↑ 1901, fig. 145.
  2. ↑ l. c., p. 548. 8–9, p. 503.
  3. ↑ 1901, fig 142.
  4. ↑ l. c., p. 503.
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