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Plover Bay. I have not seen this kind of hair between [[strikethrough]] the peop [[/strikethrough]] Eskimo about the Yukon or Kuskoquim [[Kuskokwim]]. Perhaps it comes from mixed blood - Ingalik & Eskimo in one case or Chukchee & Eskimo in the other? Among these river people (from Kowakor [[note]]) were seen quite a number with curved noses & other striking resemblance to the Ingaliks of the Yukon but in every case they had labret holes in their lips and claim to be Eskimo talking a dialect similar to the Malemut of Hotham Inlet but probably containing many Ingalik words though it was impossible for one to ascertain with the limited time and lack of interpreter. These people resembling the Ingaliks in several cases wore moose skin shirts & round caps both embroidered with beads. The River Eskimo commonly wore tanned deerskin robes tied about the shoulders & falling nearly to the ground & fringed with a cut border of ends. This robe pair out with the shaved crown for [[image 1]] these river people also practice the tonsures) and the large labrets make a strange makeup. These people are as a rule like all the Malemuts tall well built men with a free easy bearing. They wore the common style of deerskin parkies with a few made of [[strikethrough]] of w wel [[/strikethrough]] Parry's marmot, muskrat and the large species of Marmot or "Siffleur" of the Hudson Bay men. Also one or two of the 

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[[image 1: drawing of a River Eskimo wearing a long tanned deerskin hide as a robe, almost touching the ground.]] [[note]] Lt. J. C. Cantwell, explored a river in Alaska in 1884 and 1885 and spelled the name "Koowak" on his map and "Kowak" in his text. Today it is spelled Kobuk River. - in Alaska. So "Kowakor" people are those here referred to as ones living along that river (true spelling Kobuk River]]. The Chukchi, or Chukchee, are an indigenous people inhabiting the Chukchi Peninsula and the shores of the Chukchi Sea and the Bering Sea region of the Arctic Ocean, within the Russian Federation. Labret - a form of body piercings. Siffleur - a whistling marmot. This is both 26 & 27. do you need to mark images?