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full bloods — of the younger a large majority mixed (white blood). 

 The full bloods all show one marked type, of short to moderate 

 stature, rather short legs, huge chest and head, i. e., face. Color 

 near onion-brown, without luster. Indians, but modified locally. 

 Remind one (chest, stature, stockiness, shortness of neck and legs) 

 of Peruvian Indians. 



Indians at Prince Rupert same type; color pale brown; eyes and 

 nose rather small for the faces in some, in others good size. Look 

 good deal like some Chinese or rather some hand-laboring Chinese 

 and Japanese look like them. 



Indians at Juneau (the Auk tribe) very similar, but most mixed 

 with whites. 



Juneau. — A week was spent at Juneau, gathering information, ob- 

 taining letters of introduction, and making a few excursions. The 

 city has an excellent museum devoted to Alaskan history and arche- 

 ology, under the able curatorship of Father Andrew P. Kashevaroff, 

 himself a part of the history of the Territory. The archeological 

 collections of Alaska Indians and Eskimos are in some respects — 

 e. g., pottery — more comprehensive than those of any other of 

 our museums; but they, together with the valuable library, 

 are housed in a frail frame building, under great risks from both 

 fire and thieves. Fortunately the latter are still scarce in Alaska, 

 but the tire risk is great and ever present. The museum is a decided 

 cultural asset to Juneau. 



NOTES OF ARCHEOLOGICAL INTEREST 



Auk Point. — Thanks to Father Kashevaroff and Mr. Charles H. 

 Flory. the district forester, an excursion was arranged one day to 

 Auk Point, approximately 15 miles distant, a picturesque wooded 

 little promontory near which there used to be a settlement of the Auk 

 Indians. On the point were several burials of shamans and a chief of 

 the tribe (all other dead being cremated), and near the graves stood 

 until a short time ago a moderate-sized totem pole. Of all this 

 we found but bare remnants. The burials of three shamans and one 

 chief had been in huge boxes above ground; but they had all been 

 broken into and most of the contents belonging to the dead were 

 taken away, including the skulls. The skeletal parts of two of the 

 bodies and a few bones of the chief remained, however, with a few 

 objects the vandals had overlooked. The latter were placed in the 

 Juneau Museum while the bones, showing some features of interest, 

 were collected and sent to Washington. A large painted board near 

 the graves of the shamans remained, though damaged. The totem 

 pole, however, had been cut down the year before by a young man 

 from Juneau, who then severed the head, which he carried home, 



