Eskimo Notes Point Barrow, Alaska May 22 The inside is partly full of ice and snow but the supporting whale bones are there, forming a roughly rectangular cavity about 4' wide and 6' long, with sloping walls. It might have been a little bigger and deeper, I didn't take a long look this trip. In the patcher of bare gravel and tundra plants, for there is some soil on the high ground, it is possible to see artifacts. I saw rusty nails, bits of glass, and remnants of an old stove. But on closer inspection at another place found a saved piece of caribou antler which Pete Sovalik says is an ice scraper which not completed, this only a few years old. Then I found the prize, a handle for an oloo (knife or scraper) nicely fashioned of whale bone. It is somewhat weathered and cracked but intact. There are series of holes drilled for braiding in baleen or rawhide for decoration and to improve the grip. Primitive over had stone blades and later ones steel. Pete says he has never seen such a carefully made one in use