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ANTHROPOLOGICAL SURVEY IN ALASKA 



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census enumeration of the natives in Alaska, and he later published 3S 

 a valuable report on his work, together with detailed demographic 

 data and a map on which are given all the living settlements of his 

 time. Nelson's map is partly based on Petrof 's data. 



Since Nelson and Petrof but little has been done in this field. 

 But the maps of these two observers have been utilized more or less 

 by the map makers of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, 

 the Geological Survey, and other Government agencies concerned 

 with Alaska. The result is that some of these charts are exception- 

 ally useful to the anthropological explorer in Alaska; neverthe- 

 less the data they carry are incomplete and the locations or names 



T/WA/£H WOS. 

 INHUIT TRIBES 



Figued 14. — Dall's map of the distribution of the tribes of Alaska and adjoining 



territory, 1875 



are not always exact, a good many of the villages shown are now 

 dead, and old ruins, as usual, have received no attention. 



A very valuable supplement to all the maps has in 1902 been 

 published by the United States Geological Survey. It is the 

 Geographic Dictionary of Alaska, by Marcus Baker. This 

 volume, besides brief but serviceable historical data, gives in 

 alphabetical order nearly all the then-known names of localities in 

 Alaska, including those of the Eskimo and Indian settlements; and 

 each name is accompanied by brief but in many instances most 

 helpful information. This highly deserving volume, indispensable 



38 Tenth Census, vm ; reprinted in Compilation of Narratives of Explorations in Alaska. 

 U. S. Senate Rept. 1023, Washington, 1900, 55-281. 



