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THE ESKIMO ABOUT BERING STRAIT 



[ETH. ANN. 18 



The fur traders, one and all, furthered my work with voluntary 

 assistance. To Messrs McQuesten, Petersen, Fredericks, and Will- 

 iams I owe many favors. I am particularly grateful to the late Pro- 

 fessor Baird for the opportunity to accomplish the field work which 

 resulted iu the accumulation of the material on which the present 

 report is based. I have also to extend to the authorities of the 

 National Museum my appreciation of their courtesy in placing the 

 entire Alaskan ethnological collecjtion at my disposal during the prep- 

 aration of this report, and for other favors. To Professor Otis T. 

 Mason and Dr Walter Hough, of the United States I^ational Museum, 

 I am under special obligations for their unfailing courtesy and cordial 

 assistance during the preparation of this work. I wish also to express 

 my sense of obligation to Mr Wells M. Sawyer, illustrator of the Bureau 

 of American Ethnology, for many suggestions and other favors while 

 arranging the illustrations. 



ALPHABET 



The following alphabet is used in writing all Eskimo names of i)laces, 



etc, in this memoir : 



The color scheme used in the drawings representing totem marks, 

 grave boxes, masks, etc., is shown in figure 1, page 20. 



