CONTENTS 



Page 



Introduction 29 



General remarks 31 



Northwest coast — Juneau 32 



The Coast Indians 32 



Notes of archeological interest 33 



The writer's trip on the Yukon 39 



Tanana — Yukon 39 



Ancient man 41 



The Indians at Tanana 42 



Ruby 48 



Galena 51 



Nulato 53 



Kaltag 54 



The Anvik people 57 



Bonasila 60 



Holy Cross 61 



Ghost Creek 62 



Paimute 66 



Russian Mission 70 



Marshall 72 



St. Michael 84 



About Nome 88 



Aboriginal remains 89 



Nome — Bering Strait — Barrow 90 



Savonga 92 



The Diomedes 94 



The Yukon Territory — Sites, the Indians, the Eskimo 123 



The Tanana 123 



Brief historical data 123 



Population 124 



Indian sites and villages along the Tanana 125 



Lower Tanana, Nenana to Yukon 126 



The Yukon below Tanana 126 



Brief history 126 



The Yukon natives 129 



Native villages 131 



Present conditions 133 



Archeology of the Yukon 134 



The random specimens 134 



Location of villages and sites on the Yukon 136 



Pre-Russian sites 140 



Archeology of Central Alaska 144 



Ancient stone culture 144 



The pottery 146 



The Alaskan grooved stone ax 147 



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