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on a few about Cape Wankarem. Interesting objects of the fossil 

 ivory culture are said to occur in these old sites as far west as the 

 Kolyma, but nothing is certain except that there are ruins, that a 

 good number of them are probably Eskimo, and that fossil ivory, 

 both worked (walrus) and unworked (mammoth), comes from these 



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Figure 27. — Eskimo villages and sites, St. Lawrence Island, the Diomedes. and the 

 eastern Asiatic coast 



coasts. A noteworthy report is that of a large native cemetery 

 on the Bering Sea side, with hundreds of burials in rough stone- 

 slab graves. Information of this was given me by Joe Bernanl, 

 well known in connection with Bering Sea explorations, who had 

 seen the site in person. 



