X FOREWORD 



at Yakutat in 1952 by Dr. Fang-Kuei Li, Department of Far Eastern 

 Studies, University of Washington. When it became apparent that 

 the ethnographic investigations should be extended to the neighbors 

 of the Yakutat Indians, Frederica de Laguna and Catharine McClellan 

 collaborated in studying the Atna of the Copper River during the 

 summers of 1954, 1958, and 1960. 



The field researches at Yakutat were supported by the Arctic 

 Institute of North America, with funds from the Office of Naval 

 Research, in 1949 and 1953; by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for 

 Anthropological Research in 1949 and 1952; by the Social Science 

 Research Council and the American Philosophical Society in 1954; 

 and by the Department of Anthropology, University of California at 

 Berkeley, in 1952 and 1953. The University of Pennsylvania Museum 

 and Bryn Mawr College were also sponsors. A faculty research 

 fellowship from the Social Science Research Council and the hospitality 

 of the Berkeley campus during the senior author's sabbatical leave have 

 permitted her to finish this report. 



We wish to express our gratitude to the above-named organizations 

 and also to acknowledge the assistance generously given by the U.S. 

 Geological Survey, the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and 

 Wildhfe Service, the Alaska Native Service, and the U.S. Coast 

 Guard. We are also grateful for the valuable information furnished 

 by Dr. J. Louis Giddings, director of the Haffenreffer Museum, 

 Brown University; by EUzabeth Ralph, Radiocarbon Laboratory, 

 University of Pennsylvania; by Dr. Charles E. Borden, University of 

 British Columbia; by Dr. Wilham O. Field, of the American Geo- 

 graphical Society; by Dr. Calvin J. Heusser of the Osborn Botanical 

 Laboratory at Yale University; and by George Plafker and the late 

 Don J. Miller, of the U.S. Geological Survey. 



In preparing this report, Francis A. Riddell was responsible for the 

 original descriptions of the artifacts and of the archeological features 

 at the Old Town site, although his preliminary draft was later revised. 

 Donald McGeem collaborated with Riddell and also drew all the 

 maps, diagrams, and text figures, except a few prepared by E. F. 

 Chapman, Mrs. Arhe Ostlie, Irene Brion, Richard A. Gould, and 

 Frederica de Laguna. The photographs of specimens were taken by 

 the late Reuben Goldberg, of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, 

 with the exception of a few by Kenneth Lane and the Campus Studios 

 of the University of Washington. Arthur Freed and Kenneth Lane 

 prepared the analysis of faunal remains. We are indebted to Carolyn 

 Osborne for the description and interpretation of the Yakutat blanket. 

 While the senior author has been responsible for the organization and 



