hbdlii-'Ka] WRITER'S TIIIP ON YUKON 57 



The Anvik People 



The Anvik people, it will be recalled, were the first Yukon natives 

 seen by a white man. They were discovered in 1834 by Glazunof, 

 and since then have occupied the same site, located favorably on a 

 point between the Anvik and the Yukon Rivers. They belonged 

 to the Inkalik tribe, a name given to them, according to Zagoskin, 

 by the coast people and signifying " lousy," from the fact that they 

 never cut their hair, which in consequence, presumably, harbored 

 some parasites. Their village was the lowest larger settlement of the 

 Indians on the Yukon, the Eskimo commencing soon after. 



The Anviks to-day are clearly seen to be a hybrid lot. There are 

 unmistakable signs of a prevalent old Eskimo mixture. The men 

 are nearly all more or less Eskimoid, and even the head is not infre- 

 quently narrower, fairly long, jaws much developed. The women, 

 however, show the Eskimo type less, and the children in a still smaller 

 measure — they are much more Indian. Yet even some women and 

 an occasional child are Eskimoid — face flat, long, lower jaw high, 

 cheek bones prominent forward (like welts on each side of the nose), 

 whole physiognomy recalling the Eskimo. The more Indianlike 

 types resemble closely those of the upper Yukon. There is percep- 

 tible, too, some mixture with whites, particularly in the young. 



To bed about 11. Attic warm and window can not be opened 

 because of the insects. Sleep not very good; some mosquitoes in 

 room anyway. Wake up after 3 and just begin to doze off again 

 when the doctor gets up. About 4 he puts his shoes on — one can 

 hear every sound throughout the frame house, even every yawn — 

 and then goes to the kitchen where there soon comes the rattling of 

 pots. At 4.30 comes up to bid me good morning and ask me if I am 

 ready to get up and have breakfast. A man with a boat is to be 

 ready at 6 to take me to some old site. So a little after ;"> I get up, 

 shave, dress and go down. Another night to make up for sometime, 

 somewhere. 



We finish breakfast and the doctor goes to look for the man, but 

 everything deadlike, no one stirring anywhere. So I pack my stone 

 specimens from the river above and the bones from Kaltag, etc. It 

 is 8 a. m. and then at last Harry Lawrence, our man, appears — 

 having understood to come about that time — and before long we 

 start, in a good-sized boat, up the Yukon. 



Day mostly cloudy but fairly good ; no wind. Must use mosquito 

 mixture all the time, even after I get on boat, but they quit later. 

 Am standing on the back of the boat against and over the " house " 

 over it — inside things shake too much and I can not see enough. 



Passing by fish wheels — heaps of fish in their boxes — some just 

 being caught and dumped in. Picturesque bluffs passed yesterday 

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