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To the north of the Kutchin were the Eskimo, with whom they 
alternately fought and traded; to the south the highly organized 
Tlinkit Indians of the gulf of Alaska, who were accessible by passes 
through the mountains. Both these neighbours influenced the 
culture of the Kutchin, although at basis it followed much the 
same pattern as the culture of the trifles in the basin of the iVIackenzie. 
The Canadian Kutchin devoted most of the summer to fishing, 
and the winter to hunting caribou, moose, hare, and other game. 
They used snares just as extensively as other tribes in northern 
Canada, and constructed the same kind of caribou-pound. Their 
fishing-gear included a rather peculiar hook, a spear (double-gaff) 
modelled on an Eskimo weapon, and a long dip-net and a fish 
basket of willow that they probably co]:)ied from Pacific Coast types. 
Seines of willow bark were made by some of the Alaskan Kutchin, 
but not by the Canadian, apparently, except by those who frequented 
the lower Alackenzie. The bow was almost identical witli the 
Eskimo bow, being made of three pieces of wood jointed together 
and backed with a strong lashing of twisted sinew. One tribe, 
the Han, that lived where the towns of Dawson and Eagle now 
stand, attached a wooden hand-guard to the “grip” of the bow, 
bu^ none of the others seems to have favoured this contrivance, 
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like tlien- kinsinoi, t„ the east, south, and west, <Iruve into” ’ 
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enihiuidii, of heails or poiTu|uno-(niills along the sides where” 
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used a peculiar birch-bark cradle shaped something like a Mexican 
and sheep and goats still exist in numbers on the mountain ranges; 
but the most important game animal was the caribou, which the 
Kaska, like their kinsmen to the east, south, and west, drove into 
