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Among the things I found were two masks with an attached board on the back as follows. I succeeded in [[image]] buying one after some trouble the owner saying it was for use in catching whales. He had two little wooden models of right whale 3 inches long tied together by a sinew line a fathom long and fastened to this mask; these whale models he refused to sell saying   they were for use in the Umiak to catch whales. These are used by some kind of shamaning. The women here have remarkably mild pleasant appearing features while nearly all the men are marked by most villainously ugly faces showing the most evil looking community I have seen anywhere along the coast-- Many even among the young men with lowering brows, short tight drawn upper lip with the projecting under one and the small vicious eyes give an animal like ferocity to the features that reveals their hideous character of cold blooded ugliness-- There are about 300 people living here and 20 to 30 houses-- [[strikethrough]] I tried to [[/strikethrough]] I made some inquiries of the natives about the game to be found here or in this vicinity and obtained the following --
Reindeer numerous especially in winter on the low mts. to the South-East of the Pt. a couple or over days trip with sleds- The natives go there in boats up a small river in spring-- I saw a number of fresh deer [[strikethrough]] carkasses [[/strikethrough]] bodies lying in the caches at the point -- these had been killed in spring & brought here and the low temperature of the cache sunk into the perpetually frozen ground here but the flesh showed no sign of taint.