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blood) and two female (mix blood) Indians — of the latter, one very 

 pretty, approaching a Spanish type of beauty. Near town I also 

 visited with a launch two small Indian fishing camps. From Doctor 

 Romig information was obtained about the Indians and some old 

 sites of the Kuskokwim; and through the kindness of Messrs. Smith 

 and Mozee I was enabled to visit the Indian school at Eklutna. Here 

 at Anchorage I also was given the first and rather rare old Indian 

 stone implement. 



The Indians at the camps included 6 full bloods — 4 men, 2 women. 

 One of the men tested on chest. Typical full-blood results. 



Type of full bloods: Color slightly submedium to medium brown, 

 never darker; heads, subbraehycephalic to full brachycephalic, 

 rather small; forehead in men more or less sloping in two; face, 

 not large, Indian ; nose tends to convex but not high. Indian in 

 features and behavior, but features not as pronounced as general 

 in the States tribes. 



The full bloods in town : Medium to short stature, not massive 

 frames, moderate-sized faces, Indian type, but not the pronounced 

 form; head brachycephalic; hair all black; mustache and beard 

 scarce, as in Indians in general; color of skin submedium brown. 

 Children in camp (up to about 5 years) were striking by a relative- 

 ly considerable interorbital breadth, otherwise typical Indian. 



Birch-bark (Holies. — At Anchorage, in several of the stores, but 

 particularly at one small store, were seen many nicely decorated 

 birch-bark dishes or receptacles. They are made by inland Indians, 

 are prettily decorated with colored porcupine quills, and evidently 

 take the place of the baskets of other tribes. It was difficult to learn 

 just what Indians made the best or most, though the Tanana 

 people were mentioned. No such fine assortment of these dishes 

 was seen after leaving Anchorage. 



Eklutna. — Sixteen miles from Anchorage, along the railroad, is 

 the Indian village and school Eklutna. Mr. Smith made it possible 

 for me to reach this place on a freight and to be picked up later the 

 same day by the passenger train. 



At Eklutna was found an isolated but prettily located and well- 

 kept Indian school, with about fifty children from many parts of 

 southwestern Alaska. More than half of these children showed 

 more or less admixture of white blood, but there was a minority of 

 unquestionable full bloods. There were two children from Kodiak 

 Island and two or three southern Eskimo. The main impression 

 after a detailed look at the children was that, while they all showed 

 clear Indian affinities and some were typically Indian, yet on the 

 whole there was a prevalent trace of something Eskimoid in the 

 physiognomies — an observation that was to be repeated more than 

 once in other parts of Indian Alaska. 



