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SEALING PRIVILEGES ACCORDED ABORIGINES 
The North Pacific Sealing Convention of July 7, 1911, permits 
Indians and other aborigines dwelling on the coasts of the waters 
designated by the convention to take sealskins under certain specified 
conditions. 
There have been authenticated by the Government 1,075 sealskins 
taken in 1926 by Indians in the waters off the coasts of Washington 
and southeast Alaska. The details are as follows: 
Washington—One thousand and thirty-five skins were taken, of 
which 291 were from male seals, 715 from females, and 29 from 
unborn pups. These skins were authenticated for the Bureau of 
Fisheries by Dr. Carl B. Boyd, superintendent of the Neah Bay 
Indian Agency, Neah Bay, Wash., who has done this work for a 
number of years past. 
Southeast Alaska—F¥orty skins were taken, of which 36 were 
from male seals, 3 from females, and 1 from an unborn pup. 
An official report received by the bureau stated that 2,824 sealskins 
were taken by the natives of British Columbia in 1926. 
JAPANESE SEALSKINS DELIVERED TO THE UNITED STATES 
The North Pacific Sealing Convention of July 7, 1911, provides 
that 10 per cent of the sealskins taken by the Japanese Government 
within the areas defined by the convention shall be turned over to the 
United States Government, unless the number of seals frequenting 
the Japanese islands falls below 6,500, enumerated by official count. 
In May there was delivered at St. Louis, Mo., the United States 
Government’s share of fur-seal skins taken by the Japanese Govern- 
ment in 1924 and 1925. The share consisted of 94 skins for 1924 
and 87 for 1925, a total of 181 skins. The skins were not segregated 
by year of take. They were sold at public auction on October 11, 
1926. Before being sold, 151 were dressed, dyed, and machined. 
The remaining 30 were sold in the raw salted condition. Details of 
the sale are given on page 322. 
The United States Government’s share of fur-seal skins taken by 
the Japanese Government in 1926 was 132. They had not been 
received in this country at the end of the year. 
SEIZED SEA-OTTER SKINS 
Two sea-otter skins, which had been taken unlawfully in the vi- 
cinity of Sanak Island, Alaska, were delivered to the bureau. These 
skins will be sold for the account of the Government. They were 
surrendered through the United States Customs, following an inves- 
tigation by the Department of Justice. 
SESQUICENTENNIAL AT PHILADELPHIA 
An appropriate exhibit of sealskins and blue and white fox skins, 
illustrative of the products of the Pribilof Islands, was included 
in the bureau’s exhibit at the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial. ‘Two 
coats made from Pribilof Islands sealskins also were shown. 
