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Niniuk Pt
[[image: drawing of a flat bowl labeled 
"lamp-"]] 

Útkūsik Pr
[[image: drawings of 3 pots of varying sizes labeled "Ingaleet pottery-"]]

[[image: drawing of a cup with a handle labeled "wooden cup cut by Ingaleet"]]
[[Imowim Pr?]]

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place is called Clantilinten by the Indians which means rocks with strong water. The river being low I do not think the water was more than 8 miles an hour. It extends for a mile and a half.
________Thursday July 18, 1867________
Turn in after passing the strong water and sleep till nearly seven. Wake up and find they are unloading the canoe into the bidarra and are going to cache it on the bank as it blows too hard to take it farther in safety. High sand & gravel banks and low on E & W sides. About 8 AM till reach Anvik a large Ingaleet village. There is any quantity of dried salmon hanging up, but nearly all of them are gone up the river a few miles fishing. See for the first time pottery made by Indians & the only pottery made in the country [[very?]] large pots of earthen ware holding from five gallons to half a gallon and a rude cup with two lumps of clay as handles; they are ornamented with dots lines & crosses cut in the