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which shuts off a small space at the back. I have seen lamps like the biggest of these used as anteroom lamps.

Fig. 165 a (Ponds Inlet) is a soapstone cooking pot, square with sharp corners, where there are holes for suspension cords; Image missingFig. 164.Toy Kayak, carved in ivory. 14.1 cm long, 3.8 cm high. A number of smaller, similarly square cooking pots are from 5.7 to 1.9 cm long.

Two dippers of musk-ox horn from the Aivilingmiut, Southampton Island, are 6.1 and 9.2 cm long. A toy water-scraper from Iglulik is of caribou scapula, 6.8 cm long. A cup, of soapstone (Kingâdjuaq) is 6.4 cm high, with a top diameter of 7.2 cm, and is apparently a copy of a European tea-cup, widest at the top; a similar one from Ponds Inlet is more cylindrical, 4.1 cm high, 3.9 cm wide at the top.

Fig. 166 (Repulse Bay) is a toy blubber-pounder, of musk-ox horn, 6.3 cm long.

An ajagaq (Pingerqalik) is exactly like fig. 170.1 but only 3.5 cm long, with 13 holes; the stick is 3.0 cm long.

A drum without a skin (Itibdjeriang) is a bent, flat piece of wood, 19 cm in diameter, about 1½ cm wide, the ends held by a sinew-thread lashing; the handle is 12 cm long and has a notch in one edge near the fore end, in which the frame lies. A drum-stick, found at Kûk, Southampton Island, is of wood, 20 cm long, round; 10 cm Image missingFig. 165.Toy cooking-pot and lamp. of the length are occupied by the rather thin handle, which ends in a knob; the other part is thicker and lapped with a strip of seal-thong.

Fig. 167 (Ponds Inlet) shows the usual, traditional type of doll, of wood, with no face or arms and no hint of clothing; 11 cm long. Other wooden dolls, however, have the feet or the lower edge of the trouser-legs indicated; some of the figures have faint signs of hanging breasts and are thus females; the others may be presumed to be males. Their size varies from 5 to 17 cm. A number of wooden dolls of the same type have