. Alaska ... Natural history; Scientific expeditions. PORT CLARENCE ESKIMO 179 jgg ESKIMO UMIAK. clad in skins and some wearing red or blue shirts. The bot- toms of the boats were covered with sealskin bags, min- gled with deer skins, dogs, and babies. The only silent and impassive living creatures in the vessels were the dogs and the babies; all the others were hold- ing up the articles they wished to trade —hides, bits of carved ivory, mukluks or skin boots, and walrus teeth, and all were shouting at the tops of their voices. It was a scene of great confusion. Most of what they offered
. Alaska ... Natural history; Scientific expeditions. PORT CLARENCE ESKIMO 179 jgg ESKIMO UMIAK. clad in skins and some wearing red or blue shirts. The bot- toms of the boats were covered with sealskin bags, min- gled with deer skins, dogs, and babies. The only silent and impassive living creatures in the vessels were the dogs and the babies; all the others were hold- ing up the articles they wished to trade —hides, bits of carved ivory, mukluks or skin boots, and walrus teeth, and all were shouting at the tops of their voices. It was a scene of great confusion. Most of what they offered to sell was not worth buying, since they had undoubtedly parted with all their best things to the whalers. The members of the ship's company gave exorbitant prices for some very worthless things, and paid chiefly in silver, most of which unquestionably soon found its way on board the whalers, to be traded there for spirits. After a time the Eskimo left the ship to return to the beach, and soon the party landed and spent some hours wandering through their camps. There was a con- tinuous camp of na- tives stretching all along the curving beach for a mile or more. Some of these had come from Cape Prince of Wales, others from Cape Nome,and others still from St. Michael. Most had recently arrived, and their property was not yet. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899); Harriman, Edward Henry, 1848-1909; Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942; Washington Academy of Sciences (Washington, D. C. ). New York, Doubleday, Page & Company
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