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Title: Descriptive booklet on the Alaska historical museum
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Alaska Historical Library and Museum Kashevaroff, Andrew P., b. 1863 Alaska Historical Association
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Publisher: Juneau, Alaska
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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wing outdrift-wood.or by bending a thin boardof spruce or fir around a circular bot-tom and sewing the ends together. Tool and Trinket Boxes. For holding tools and implements ofall kinds, arrow and spear points andother necessary odds and ends, theEskimo makes very neat boxes fromdrift wood and other material. Thecollection contains many varied shapesand sizes. No. Ill from King Island20x8x4i/o inches is made from drift-wood steamed and bent and th endssewn with split whalebone. No. 1004from Sinuk is made in a similar way.It has a well-shaped cover hollowedout from a single piece of wood. Bothare of an early period. No. 322 fromKing Island, is of a more recent date.The box is oblong 16x8x61/2 inches. Itis decorated with strips of ivory andcarved ivory seals. The handle is ofivory representing bear heads. No. 201from Cape Prince of Wales is a wom-ans work box. It is circular in shapemade from bent wood, the ends sewnwith walrus hide over a piece of ivorystrip to hold the ends in place.
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40 ALASKA HISTORICAL MUSEUM Lamps. Throughout the Northern portion ofAlaska and the islands on tne BeringStrait lamps are used for furnishinglight and heat. These lamps stand onthe floor or on special stands made fortnem. Ji,ach nouse-wife has her ownlamp, when more than one family oc-cupies the igloo. The lamp lights theroom and at the same time gives suffi-cient heat to make the Eskimo com-fortable. The material used for mak-ing the lamps is soap-stone, rude pot-tery, clay, wood and in some instances,bone. Ihe lamp has always been re-garded a fixture of the Eskimo house.When the family moves the lamp goeswith the family. Parry in his secondvoyage gives a good description of theuse of the Eskimo lamp. He says:The fire belonging to each family con-sists of a single lamp or shallow vesselof lapis ollaris, its form being the less-er segment of a circle. The wick, com-posed of dry moss rubbed between thehands until it is quite inflammable, isdisposed along the edge of the lamp onthe stra

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