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Canadian Arctic Expedition, 191S-18 

 XIV F. ALASKA 



Cat. No. 



Specimen 



Locality 



Collector 



Date 



XIV F-16 



XIV r-17, 



XIV F-18 



XIV F-19 



XIV F-20 



XIV r-21 



XIV F-22 



XIV F-23 



XIV F-24 



XIV F-25 



XIV F-26. 

 XIV F-27, 

 XIV F-28 

 XIV F-29, 

 XIV F-30 



XIV F-31 



XIV F-32. 



XIV F-33, 

 XIV F-34. 



Cranium and 8 ribs 



18 fragments of cranium, 1 

 mandible, 2 broken rib 

 bones. 



Cranium and 24 bones 



38 miscellaneous bones 



Cranium, mandible, 112 mis 



cellaneous bones. 

 Cranium 



It 



Cranium (broken) and upper 



and lower jaws. 

 Cranium 



(broken) 



Upper part of cranium 



Lower jaw 



10 miscellaneous bones .... 

 Femur, tibia and fibula . . ■ 



Cranium, lower jaw and 13 



skeletal bones. 

 Lower jaw 



4 crania (A, B, C, D) 



11 skeletal bones 



Barter island (ruin 



73 E.) 

 Barter island (ruin 



72 E.) 



Barter island (ruin 



76 E.) 

 Barter island (ruin 



76 E.) 

 Barter island (ruin 



2W.) 

 Barter island (on 



surface of tundra) . 

 Barter island (ruin 



35 E.) 

 Barter island (ruin 



18 E.) 



Barter island (ruin 

 68 E.) 



Barter island (ruin 



76 E.) 

 Barter island (ruin 



16 W.) 

 Arey island, near 



Barter island (ruin 



41) 

 CoUinson point 



D. Jenness... 



Summer, 1914 



F. Johansen. 



July, 1914 



The first group of specimens, XIV H-4-9, from Victoria island, Franklin 

 district, were discovered on the surface of the ground. Together with numbers 

 XIV D-4, D-6 and D-7 from Young point, which were also found on the surface, 

 they undoubtedly represent the remains of some Copper Eskimos. In this 

 region no trouble was taken to protect the dead; the bodies were simply left on 

 the ground to the mercy of birds and animals. The specimens from Baillie 

 island, XIV D-1, D-2, D-3 and D-5, were also found on the surface of the 

 ground. Baillie island was visited by whaling ships from about 1890 onwards, 

 but as white men always bury their dead, these must have been the remains 

 of Eskimos. Nothing is known concerning the cranium XIV D-8, from the 

 Mackenzie district, except that it was collected by Mr. Stefansson at Shingle 

 point, a short distance east of the delta of the Mackenzie river. 



Of the Alaskan specimens those from Port Clarence (XIV F-l-F-lS) came 

 from a single graveyard close to the beach. Here the wooden scaffolds on which 

 the bodies once rested had rotted away, and everything lay in confusion on the 

 ground. Foxes and birds appeared to have committed some ravages. As many 

 of the bones lay an inch or more beneath the soil the burials can hardly have 

 taken place less than 100 years ago. 



At CoUinson pioint, on the north coast of Alaska, the expedition discovered 

 about a dozen ancient graves. Our naturalist, Mr. Frits Johansen, excavated 

 two, and from them obtained the two crania XIV F-33 a and 6, and the eleven 

 skeletal bones XIV F-34. The two crania XIV F-33 c and d lay on top of the 

 graves, but as the ground had quite plainly been disturbed, they probably belong 

 to the same period as the other remains. 



