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about open places in the small rivers. A native trader tells me they are very numerous at Ulukuk summer and Winter.

They also brought a number of species of small white fish and several Grayling.

Legmalnis Owl they say sees very badly in the day time and may be taken by hand or by a noose on the end of a stick but is very shy during the night.

March 22 - finished labelling the ethnological collection upon which I have been working for the past week. The number has risen to over 1200 specimens besides the considerable amount that is yet to come in from traders to whom I have given goods

23d Kojeonikoff left about 8 a.m. and in the after part of the morning Charlie Peterson arrived from Andraeffky, he brought me a snowy owl and some specimens of Grayling and White fish and told Mr Neumann and I that he had obtained some 20 masks for us from tundra natives, two of them are so large that when in use they hang by cords from the roof of the Cashine and the wearer stands behind with his head in it and simply sways it from one side to another or turns it about. 

When he bought the masks he says the nations had just ended a dance and were burning the masks according to their custom and that whoever sold their mask had to bring wood to burn in its place.

The native shamans all along the coast and up the Yukon as far as the "mūt" people extend have a great desire