Actually, the Kotzebue Sound collection is slightly less 

 than twice as large as the one obtained at Port Clarence. 



In spite of the collector's enthusiasm for his own 

 collection, the Museum appears to have been less than 

 completely satisfied. Holmes felt that he had received 

 only about one-third of the artifacts necessary for his 

 proposed exhibit, and he was particularly concerned 

 about the absence of material from Siberia. Although he 

 believed Bruce had done his best and "as much as any 

 man could have done," the collection as received was 

 worth "not more than half the sum mentioned in the 

 original agreement." Since Bruce — who, it will be recal- 

 led, had already received an advance of $500 — proposed 

 another expedition to secure the rest of the material 

 agreed upon, Holmes recommended a second advance of 

 $500, with the remaining $500 to be paid when the 

 agreement was fulfilled to the Museum's satisfaction. 

 The director agreed to this arrangement and informed 

 Bruce. 



Miner Bruce returned in the summers of 1896 and 

 1897 to Alaska, where he made collections for the 

 Smithsonian Institution, the Carnegie Museum of Nat- 

 ural History in Pittsburgh, and perhaps other institu- 

 tions. There was no further correspondence with Field 

 Museum for almost two years. Meanwhile, Holmes 

 resigned the curatorship in late 1896, and his successor 

 was George A. Dorsey, who had been appointed assis- 

 tant curator the previous year. In 1897 Bruce made 

 another collection for the Museum consisting of approx- 

 imately 200 items from various locations in Alaska and 

 Siberia (accession 546), which Dorsey considered to be 

 "of great ethnological interest." In addition, he provided 

 Eskimos who served as models for plaster molds suf- 

 ficient for seven manikins and helped Dorsey identify 

 many objects in the Museum's Eskimo collections. For 

 these services, Dorsey recommended that Bruce be paid 

 the remaining $500 called for in the old contract, a 

 recommendation the Museum's administration 

 approved. FH 



NOTE 



This article is adapted from J. VanStone, "The Bruce Collec- 

 tion of Eskimo Material Culture from Port Clarence, Alaska," 

 Fieldiana: Anthropology, vol. 67, 1976 and "The Bruce Collec- 

 tion of Eskimo Material Culture from Kotzebue Sound, Alas- 

 ka," Fieldiana: Anthropology, new series no. 1, 1980. Most of 

 the information was obtained from the archives and corres- 

 pondence files of the Department of Anthropology. For addi- 

 tional details concerning the importation of domesticated 

 reindeer to Alaska from Siberia, see D.J. Ray, The Eskimos 

 of Bering Strait, 1650-1898, University of Washington 

 Press, 1975. 



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