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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 



VOL. DO 



During the four months sojourn on St. Lawrence, considerable 

 data of anthropometrical, physiological, and ethnological interest 

 were obtained, besides plaster masks and photographs of men and 

 women. Detailed accounts of religious, funeral, and other cere- 

 monies, and a large collection of folk tales were also procured. 



HUNTING AND TRAPPING ON THE ALASKAN-CANADIAN 

 BOUNDARY 



Mr. Copley Amory, Jr., of Cambridge, Massachusetts, a collab- 

 orator of the National Museum, accompanied the Coast Survey 



Fig. 19. — Joe Creek, tributary of the Firth River. Photograph by Amory. 



party which was engaged in surveying the Alaskan-Canadian 

 boundary in the summer of 1912. He reached New Rampart House 

 on July 1 1, and with a trapper and three dogs, packed over the moun- 

 tains for 60 miles to the base of supplies on the Old Crow. He then 

 went north to Joe Creek, a tributary of the Firth. After two weeks 

 he returned to Old Crow and was joined by Mr. Thomas Riggs, Jr.. 

 with whom lie travelled some 40 miles to the southwest in the caribou 

 country, returning to the station on the < >ld Crow on August 23. 

 There a canvas boat was built and a trip was made down to the mouth 

 of the river, a distance of about 300 miles. 



