. Alaska and its resources. ere weremany new baskets and nettings lying about, — the material forprojected fish-traps. Many of the inhabitants were absent, afterbeaver. One man brought me ten fine marten, but asked so higha price that I refused to buy them. The Stareek (old man)brought me two marten and some mink, which I bought, but theMahlemuts had purchased most of the furs. Well armed, bold,and numerous, the latter completely overawed the degraded, fish-eating Indians, and forced them to sell whatever they had, at thepurchasers price. I noticed that the graves or coffins here, instead of b
. Alaska and its resources. ere weremany new baskets and nettings lying about, — the material forprojected fish-traps. Many of the inhabitants were absent, afterbeaver. One man brought me ten fine marten, but asked so higha price that I refused to buy them. The Stareek (old man)brought me two marten and some mink, which I bought, but theMahlemuts had purchased most of the furs. Well armed, bold,and numerous, the latter completely overawed the degraded, fish-eating Indians, and forced them to sell whatever they had, at thepurchasers price. I noticed that the graves or coffins here, instead of beingcovered with logs, as farther up the river, were filled in withearth beaten down hard and plastered over with clay. Theywere larger, rather more elevated, and painted more after the In-nuit fashion than those farther up on the Yukon. I saw quite a number of clay pots and cups of native manu-facture here. They were mostly large, holding three or four gal-lons, but some were smaller, and one was evidently modelled after. Indian pottery. a Russian mug. The common Innuit lamp is also made of clay,and all their pottery is rudely ornamented with lines, dots, andcrosses. They are about three quarters of an inch thick, of a darkbluish clay, and were perfectly black from smoke and grease. Iwould have purchased some of them, but they were so large andso exceedingly dirty that I did not care to put them in the kind of pottery was formerly universal, but has been super-seded by the kettles of the traders. The pots are made by hand, THE YUKON TERRITORY. 219 and therefore not perfectly round or symmetrical. They aredried in the sun, then baked, and will stand the fire very Innuit name for the pots isAtkusik, for the saucers or lampsNuniik, and for the cups Im-ozvnn. We left Anvik soon after drinking our tea, with Isaac on wind was so high that we could not cross the river, and raincoming on, we soon camped on a small island. The other boatscrossed to the ot
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