HKDi.iiKA] WRITER'S TRIP ON YUKON 69 



Boat leaves in a few minutes. Back to bed, but now almost full 

 daylight- — also cold, and so no more than a doze until 6.15, at which 

 lime the boy comes to the kitchen where I was kindly accommodated 

 to start fire and breakfast. So up with a drowsy head. At 7 break- 

 fast — coffee, oatmeal, flapjacks, and good company. Everything 

 about this place is neat, fresh, pleasing — the best individual place 

 on the river. Cloudy, blustery, cool; can not start, so go iy 2 miles 

 down to Dogfish village, or I-ka-thloy-gia-miut — probably the same 

 as Zagoskin's I-ka-lig-vig-miut. Only three or four families there 

 now; nearly all the inhabitants died of influenza in 1900. But 

 already before reaching the village, in examining the stones along 

 the beach, I find some chipped ones, and they represent the same 

 industry evidently as those at the two sites yesterday. Later find 

 numerous chipped scrapers, pointed hammers, crude cutters and 

 chisels, and a few axes. Make quite a collection, including a few 

 objects found in possession of natives. 



This is a good site, above high water. Must be old. Pottery also 

 encountered occasionally by present occupants, but not one bead ; 

 little if any river cutting here for a long period. Worth exploration. 

 Photograph another Indianlike Eskimo. Want to buy an old dish 

 from an Eskimo, border inlaid with six white stones, shaped like an 

 oblong lozenge with rounded corners, but he wants $20. Lunch all 

 together, some Eskimo included, at Tucker's, and then as the wind 

 moderates and the sun comes out, start for the Russian Mission. 

 Mostly still clouds and cool, with some rain in the mountains to 

 the right. 



Finds and inquiries made at Dogfish village make it positive that 

 the stone culture there is Eskimo, i. e., of the Eskimo of this region 

 who are probably not a little mixed with Indians. Their head is 

 but moderately oblong, not keel shaped. The majority, however, 

 have Eskimo features. 



But the cupid-bow (double-grooved) axes are not known to have 

 been made by these people, and when used after being found or 

 brought down from farther up the river they apparently were 

 broken. One such example was seen already at Ruby — another one 

 at Anvik — secured; and one found yesterday at Mountain village. 

 The axes here are most often oblong, quadrilateral, without groove, 

 or approaching the single-grooved axes of the Indians in the States. 



July 6. Proceed down the river toward Russian Mission, examin- 

 ing the banks as closely as possible. Toward evening stop at 

 " Gurtler's," a short distance above the mission. 



Mr. Gurtler is a German by birth ; his wife is half Indian, of Ruby. 

 She, as well as her 14-year-old daughter, are neat. apt. and very in- 

 dustrious, quiet and nice mannered. With an Eskimo woman, she 



