Category: History - Other
Page Introduction 29 General remarks 31 Northwest coast--Juneau 32 The Coast Indians 32 Notes of archeological interest 33 The writer's trip on the Yukon 39 Tanana--Yukon 39 Ancient man 41 The Indians at Tanana 42 Ruby 48 Galena 51 Nulato 53 Kaltag 54 The Anvik people 57 Bonas...
Find, about half a mile from the present village, a big and important old site, which existed up to the white man's time. But dunes on which burials were made and house sites ha...
11. Part 11August 2. With clothes on, and anticipation, slept poorly. Ship stopped about 1 a. m. and I imagined we were off Barrow. But on rising find that we have gone on and then backwar...
7. Part 7July 8. Up a little after 6; breakfast; and then comes in a native from the mission with two letters and information that the _Agnes_, the little mail-carrier boat, has arrived...
12. Part 12Sunday, August 15. Bad sea, wind, waves, fog. Have to take to bed and do without breakfast. Stay in until lunch. We could not stop again at Shishmareff; could not get ashore. Th...
4. Part 4The outfit is largely homemade, not imposing, old, unpainted, and unfit for the rough--but it could be worse. It consists of a scow, a low, flat-bottomed boat, partly covered wi...
8. Part 8Supper once more on reindeer meat. This time prepared as a sort of a stew with onions--again very good. But we were to leave after supper for St. Michael and I see no intention...
6. Part 6Friday, July 2. "Ghost Creek" was named so because of many burials about the creek. The flat between the hills here is about three-fourths of a mile long by the water front, wit...
5. Part 5Everything on and along the river about the same as yesterday, except in little details. Sky clouded; light clouds, however. The boy with me has had good schooling (for a native...
9. Part 9The boat crew took away about "2 bushels" of it, or all that could be removed from the extensive frozen pile. I saw some of this ivory later, all cut up, but with a number of th...
24. Part 24The face of the Innuit is broad below the eyes, the forehead is narrow and receding, the chin and lower jaw broad and heavy. The nose is usually broad and flattened, but not alw...
3. Part 3_Anchorage._--June 12-13. Anchorage, on Cook's Inlet, is a good-sized town for Alaska and the headquarters of the railroad. Here were met some very good friends, particularly Mr...
45. Part 45Rink, 1875:[235] "If we suppose the physical conditions and the climate of the Eskimo regions not to have altered in any remarkable way since they were first inhabited, their in...
21. Part 2131, 32. _Morzhovoi._--Native village at western end of Alaska Peninsula. Named Morzhovoi (Walrus) by the Russians. Variously spelled. There are or were two villages, one called...
20. Part 20The location of the western Eskimo villages has received more or less attention by most of the explorers in their region from the Russian time onward; but such efforts are gener...
47. Part 47And both in the west and in the east the most pronounced Eskimo characteristics exceed similar features in the Indian, indicating independent development. Such characteristics i...
46. Part 46Mortillet, 1889:[258] "Les Groënlandais, au point de vue paléoethnologique, présentent un très grand intérêt. Ils paraissent se relier très intimement aux hommes qui habitaient...
2. Part 2Alaska and the opposite parts of Asia hold, in all probability, the key to the problem of the peopling of America. It is here, and here alone, where a land of another continent...
22. Part 22This shore is but little known to science. It is dangerous of approach to any except small boats. The only place that could be visited by me was Shishmaref, a good-sized thrivin...
23. Part 23The Eskimos of the Atlantic are not only easily distinguished from the tribes of American aborigines which lie to the south or west of them, and with which they come in contact,...
19. Part 19The shores of the Alaska rivers, the littoral parts of Alaska, the more northern Bering Sea islands, and those portions of the Asiatic coast that were once or are still occupied...
14. Part 14Anvik station and village 94 Single house 20 Single house 12 Single house 15 Tanakhothaiak 52 Single house 15 Chageluk settlements 150 Khatnotoutze 115 Kaiakak 124 Kaltag 45 Nul...
29. Part 29Until recently collections of skeletal remains of the western Eskimo were confined largely to skulls. The material in our own institutions comprised a small collection of Mahlem...
13. Part 13The Tanana is the largest tributary of the Yukon. It is over 600 miles in length, and in its breadth, though not in its volume, it appears to equal, if not to exceed, the Yukon...
25. Part 25[78] _Proportions._--"Both sexes are well proportioned, stout, muscular, and active."--Seemann's Voy. _Herald_, II, 50. "A stout, well-looking people."--Simpson's Nar., pp. 110,...
44. Part 44Asiatic: Steller 1743 Cranz 1779 Blumenbach 1795 Lawrence 1822 Von Wrangell 1839 Morton 1839 McDonald 1841 Latham 1850 Pickering 1854 Wilson 1863 Rae 1865, 1877-78, 1886 Markham...
15. Part 15"The stone culture of the site, although rich in forms, is deficient in technical development and is scarcely worthy of being classed as neolithic. There were found in numbers t...
43. Part 43A comparison of the Igloo and Greenland series shows striking similarities; hardly any two geographically separate groups originating from a single source could reasonably be ex...
40. Part 40The Eskimo lower jaw differs substantially in many respects from that in other races, particularly from that of the whites. It is characterized by a high and stout body; by broa...
26. Part 26Meanwhile W. H. Dall has published (1877) his monograph on the "Tribes of the Extreme Northwest,"[113] in which he includes Wyman's and also some of Otis's data on the Eskimo (a...
18. Part 18The exact provenience of the six men measured at Marshall is uncertain, but they seemingly were all from the lower Yukon and all were apparently full-blood Eskimo. But the measu...
32. Part 32The above figures show several conditions. The first is that the arch is quite distinctly larger in the narrow than in the broad skulls in both sexes. The second fact is that th...
42. Part 42After writing of this to Doctor Mason, he kindly sent me a copy of the notes and observations on the discovery of the material by W. B. Van Valin, who was in charge of the excav...
48. Part 48---- On the Remains of later prehistoric Man obtained from Caves in the Catherina Archipelago, Alaska Territory, and especially from the Caves of the Aleutian Islands. Smithsoni...
17. Part 17+-------+------+------+------+------ Cata- |Orbits:| Brea-| Or-| Nose:| Brea- logue |Height,| dth,| bital|Height| dth, No. | right,|right,|index,| | max- | left| left| mean| | i...
39. Part 39These facts are probably of more significance than might seem at first glance; for it is precisely by the same characters, carried still further, that some of the Eskimo differ...
30. Part 30(11) Togiak 81.8 (25) Nelson Island 82.1 (6) Southwest Alaska 82.3 (6) Pilot Station, Yukon 82.3 (10) Mumtrak 82.5 (13) Hooper Bay 82.7 (116) Nunivak Island 83.3 (5) Chukchee 83...
27. Part 27+---------------+---------------- |Western Eskimo | Old Americans +-------+-------+-------+-------- | Male | Female| Male | Female ---------------------------------------+------...
1. Part 1Page Introduction 29 General remarks 31 Northwest coast--Juneau 32 The Coast Indians 32 Notes of archeological interest 33 The writer's trip on the Yukon 39 Tanana--Yukon 39 Anc...
31. Part 31+-----------------------+----------------------- | Males | Females Area +-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+------- | Height|Breadth| Index | Height|Breadth| Index --------...
28. Part 28+----------------- | | Old white | Americans | ---------------------+----------------- | _Male_ _Female_ | Maximum girth of | 36.1 35.5 left calf | | Percentage relation | _20.3...
41. Part 41+--------------------------------------------- | Males -------------+------------+---------+--------+------------ Bones of |Southwestern| Seward| Point| Seward both sides | and|...
38. Part 38+--------+------+--------- | | | | | | | Baffin| Smith|Greenland | Land,| Sound| | North| | | Devon,| | | and| | |vicinity| | -----------+--------+------+--------- Vault: | (17)...
16. Part 16+-------------+-------+------+--------------+-------+----------- Catalogue|Basion-bregma|Cranial| Mean|Height-breadth|Cranial| Capacity, No. | height| index|height| index| modul...
37. Part 37+--------+-------+-------+--------+-------+----------+-------- | Seward Peninsula | | | | +--------+-------+-------+ | | | |Golovnin| Cape| Sledge| Port| Wales|Shishmaref|Kotzeb...
36. Part 36+---------+------+-------+-------+------+------+---------- | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Unalaska|Togiak|Mumtrak|Nunivak|Nelson|Hooper| Yukon |Peninsula| | | Islan...
33. Part 33(11) North Arctic 68.5 54.5 (24) Baffin Land 70.0 55.0 (87) Greenland 69.8 53.8 (35) Old Igloos near Barrow 70.3 55.8 (7) Hudson Bay 70.3 56.8 (12) Southampton Island 71 55
34. Part 34+-------+--------+-------+------+------+------- | | | | Northeastern Asia | | | +------+------+------- | St.| St.| Little|Indian|Puotin|Chukchi |Michael|Lawrence|Diomede| Point|...
35. Part 35+--------+-------+--------+---------+------+--------+ |Kotzebue| Point| Barrow| Old| Point|Northern| | | Hope| and| Igloos,|Barrow| Arctic| | | |vicinity|southwest| | | | | | |o...