SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 60 
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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 
Fic. 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 11, and with a trapper and three dogs, packed over the moun- 
tains for 60 miles to the base of supphes 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 he travelled some 40 miles to the southwest in the caribou 
country, returning to the station on the Old 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. 
