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Reindeer Chukchek Young Man. 



Eskimo Gikl. 



Maritime Chukchee Woman. 



Reindeer Chukchee Woman. 



subdued, the Russians having with- 

 drawn in 1764, leaving the inhabitants 

 to settle their affairs according to their 

 own customs. Commerce has in part 

 accomplished what force failed to do, 

 1 bough the bulk of the territory re- 

 mains exempt from any trace of Hus- 

 sianization. 



The Chukchee number only about 

 12,000, of whom about one quarter are 

 maritime and three quarters are rein- 

 deer people, while there are about 1.200 

 Eskimo on the coast. It is not settled 



as to whether the Chukchee and Eskimo 

 belong to the same stock. Types of 

 Mongolian faces are not uncommon, and 

 at present there is a good deal of ad- 

 mixture. The domestication of rein- 

 deer is characteristic of the tribes in- 

 habiting the Asiatic side of Bering Sea, 

 and their economic condition resembles 

 that of the more southerly cattle-breed- 

 ing tribes. The large size of some 

 of their herds is shown in the illustra- 

 tion. The Chukchee depend on rein- 

 deer for clothing and for food; for the 



