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known to the Indians or the Eskimo of the river and its green stone 

 was utiHzed by them for making adzes, drills, knives, lamps, and 

 other objects. This particular stone is found only in that one place, 

 yet objects and implements made of it occur scattered all the way from 



Fig. 157. — Eskimo medicine man, treating a boy. 



Point Hope down to Nunivak Island, and probably even the Gulf of 

 Alaska and the northwest coast. Similarly, one finds the highly deco- 

 rated objects of now fossil ivory on the Diomedes, the St. Lawrence 

 Island, the Asiatic coast, and from Barrow and Point Hope again 

 down to, if not beyond, Nunivak Island. The indications would seem 

 to point to the old ivory culture having been central on the Asiatic 

 side, whence it spread by trading along the American coast. 



