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off from the Schooner a mile or so outside and others came from shore. They formed a motley Crowd mainly from the Kowak & Nunatog Rivers. All had labret holes at each corner of mouth & wore large labrets the head of which varied from 2 inches to 1/2 an inch the larger ones were all made of a large circular plate of white stone in the centre of which [[strikethrough]] was [[/strikethrough]] is placed the half of a large blue bead of the kind so much prized among these people. The following sketch gives the shape [[image]] The smaller labrets were made of granite, soft coal, green jade quartz slate & other kinds of rocks and were made with rounded button like heads or with angular or round plug like projecting ends. The weight & size of these ornaments distorted the under lip to such an extent that the 
[[drawing]] mouth took the following shape giving a coarse triangular opening behind which a double row of glistening teeth shone out.

The women have three or four radiating tattoed lines across the chin like most Malemut women.

Among those who came on board was one man with coarse curly hair like that seen on a partly African blooded man forming a bushy [[strikethrough]] crinkled [[/strikethrough]] loosely crinkled mop of hair. I noticed a number of men and a few women with this same kind of hair along the Asiatic shore from East Cape to 

Transcription Notes:
.On the second page the unknown word may be "nude" based on the lettering of other words