Round and oblong wooden containers for meat and blubber ranged in size from thirteen to almost sixty centimetres. This one is round with a hollowed, saucer-like bottom. It was made by curving a thin slat of spruce wood into a circle, joining the two ends with bone or copper rivets, and mortising in the bottom.
The drinking ladle was produced from a section of muskox horn. The piece of metal on the lip was used to repair a break in the material.
Also produced from muskox horn was the blubber pounder seen here. The tip has been flattened and grooved to fit comfortably into the hand of the user. The average household-size pounder was about twenty centimetres long and this tool facilitated the transformation of blubber into oil for use in soapstone lamps such as the one in illustration 21.
Courtesy: National Museum of Man, National Museums of Canada (S80-261)
