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Smithsonian exploration volume for 1926 (Washington, 1927, pp. 

 137-158). 



Not much reference is possible to previous work of the nature 

 here dealt with in the parts visited, except in the Aleutian Islands, 

 where good archeological work was done in the late sixties by 

 William H. Dall, 1 and in 1909-10 by Waldemar Jochelson. 2 



The archeology and anthropology of the Gulf of Alaska, the in- 

 land, the Yukon Basin, the Bering Sea coasts and islands, and those 

 of the Arctic coasts up to Point Barrow are but little known. The 

 archeology is in reality known only from the stone and old ivory 

 implements that have been incidentally collected and have reached 

 various institutions where they have been studied; from the excava- 

 tions about Barrow, conducted by an expedition of the University 

 Museum, Philadelphia, in charge of W. B. Van Valin, and by the 

 trader, Mr. Charles Brower, the results of which have not yet been 

 published ; and from the recent diggings at Wales and on the smaller 

 Diomede Island by Doctor Jenness. 3 Neither Dall, Nelson, Rau, nor 

 Murdoch conducted any excavations outside the already mentioned 

 work in the Aleutians. 



Northwest Coast — Juneau 

 the coast indians 



Passage was taken on a small steamer from Vancouver. The 

 boat stopped at a number of settlements on the scenic " inside " 

 route — which impresses one as a much enlarged and varied trip 

 through the Catskills — permitting some observations on the Indians 

 of these parts. 



The main opportunity was had at Aleut Bay. Here many British 

 Columbia Indians were seen on the dock, belonging to several tribes. 

 Names of these, as pronounced to me, were unfamiliar. They have 

 a large agency here; engage in salmon industry. A minority, only. 



1 Hall, Wm. H. : Alaska as it Was and Is; 1S65-1893. Bull. Phil. Soc. Wash.. 1000, 

 vol. xiii. 111. On Prehistoric Remains in the Aleutian Islands. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., 

 November, 1872, vol. iv, 283-287. Explorations on the Western Coast of North America. 

 Smiths. Rept. for 1873, Wash., 1*74. 417-118. On Further Examinations of the 

 Amaknak Cave. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., 1873, vol. v, 196-200. Notes on Some Aleut 

 Mummies. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Octoher, 1874, vol. v. 399-400. Deserted Hearths. 

 The Overland Monthly, 1S74, vol. XIII, 25-30. Alaskan Mummies. Am. Naturalist, 1S75, 

 vol. IX, 433-440. Tribes ot the Extreme Northwest. Contrib. N. Am. Ethnol., vol. I, 

 Wash., 1877. On the Remains of Later Prehistoric Man Obtained from Caves in the 

 Catharina Archipelago, Alaska Territory, etc. Smiths. Contr. to Knowledge, No. 318, 

 Wash., 187S. 



2 Jochelson, W., Archaeological Investigations in the Aleutian Islands. Carnegie Inst. 

 of Wash. Publ. No. 367, Wash., D. C, 1925. 



3 Rau, Chas., North American Stone Implements. Smiths. Rept. for 1872, Wash., 

 1873. Prehistoric Fishing in Europe and North America. Smiths. Contr. to Knowl- 

 edge, Wash., 1884, vol. xxv. Thomas, Cyrus, Introduction to the Study of North 

 American Archaeology. Cincinnati, 1898. Jennes, D. Archaeological Investigations in 

 Bering Strait. Ann. Rep. Nat. Mus. Canada for 1920 (Ottawa 1928), pp. 71-80. 



