LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



Frontispiece 



FACING PAGE 



The Smith Rapids 28 



Str. Mackenzie River Below Smith Rapids 28 



Conservative Old Man Wearing Labrets 40 



An Up-to-Date Young Man 40 



Tending Fish Nets by Kayak 54 



Klinkenberg and His Family 54 



The Village and Harbor of Herschel Island .... 60 



Cabins of White Trappers, Mackenzie Delta .... 60 



A Fishing Camp — Sun-drying the Fish 74 



A Summer Camp Near Arctic Mountains 74 



Roxy and His Wife 86 



Winter Travel — Arctic Mountains South of Herschel 



Island 96 



Repairing a Broken Sled While the Dogs Lie Comfo t .tably 



Stretched Out Enjoying the Winter Sunshinf . .118 

 Eskimo Log Cache to Protect Meat from Preda' ory Ani- 

 mals 130 



Building a Snowhouse 158 



Campmaking in Winter •„ 158 



Breaking Camp 170 



Sea Ice Piled Against the Coast in Winter .... 170 



The' Break-Up of the Sea Ice in Spring 196 



An Umiak and Crew — North Coast of Alaska . . . 196 



We Sailed up the Mackenzie Delta to Macpherson . . 208 



Porcupine River in Early Spring 208 



Autumn Camp of Caribou Hunters a Hundred Miles North 



of the Arctic Circle — Sun-drying Meat and Skins . 244 



Bringing Home a Seal , ... 26,-2 



A Woman Fishing Through the Ice 262 



MAPS 302 



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