﻿NO. 7 SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I926 I43 



nity was had of seeing the natives of the coast and the islands. The 

 striking characteristics of these natives are their relatively large faces 

 and big chests, combined with rather short legs and stature. There 

 are large numbers of mixed-bloods among the younger generation. 



A stop of several days was made at Juneau, to see the excellent 

 local museum under the able directorship of Father Kashevaroff, and 

 to obtain the needed official papers. The occasion was utilized also for 

 a visit of the last remaining known site of the Auk tribe of Indians, 

 and for some important collections. The chief among the latter is 

 an old Shaman mask of the Yakutat tribe beaten from one piece of 

 copper. 



From Juneau, transportation was taken for Seward on a boat which 

 stopped at several stations for a sufficient length of time to enable the 

 writer to see such things as could be found in these places, and to make 

 inquiries of principal local men about Indian remains. Some speci- 

 mens were collected on this part of the trip, including a very typical 

 skull of an Indian child donated by Dr. Chase of Cordova. 



From Seward the journey was continued on the government rail- 

 road to Anchorage, with some further collecting and information at 

 the latter place. Through the courtesy of the general manager of the 

 railroad, Mr. Noel W. Smith, a stop was next made at the now small 

 but formerly more important Indian village of Eklutney. Here exists 

 a new and well conducted Indian school in which, thanks to the prin- 

 cipal, it was possible to examine a large number of Indians, with a 

 few Eskimo children. 



From Eklutney a train was taken to Nenana, where a number of 

 local Indians, headed by their old Chief Thomas, were waiting for a 

 brief talk ; and then to Fairbanks, where additional specimens of inter- 

 est were obtained, and where the writer was enabled, thanks to the 

 kindness of Professor C. E. Bunnell, President of the Alaska Agri- 

 cultural College, to examine the ethnological, archeological and paleon- 

 tological collections at the college. From Fairbanks, the writer re- 

 turned to Nenana, where he boarded a small river steamer with which 

 he proceeded down the Tanana River on which are several small In- 

 dian villages. 



The main part of the inland journey began at Tanana, at the junc- 

 tion of the Tanana and Yukon Rivers, and extended down the Yukon 

 for a stretch of over 900 miles. It was covered mostly in small boats, 

 some owned by traders, some by Indians. We zigzagged from bank 

 to bank, from settler to settler and camp to camp, making inquiries, 

 observing natives, examining old sites, and collecting what it was pos - 

 sible to collect. In this way considerable light was finally gained on our 



