Alaska -- Antiquities; Eskimos; Eskimos -- Anthropometry; Indians of North America -- Alaska; Indians of North America -- Yukon
The Eskimo everywhere were found to be exceedingly sensible about the
older, and even recent, skeletal remains, and assisted readily in their
collection, as well as in excavation, offering thus the best possible
conditions for anthropological and archeological work in these regions.
The notes, charts, and a detailed list of the sites and villages
follow. In numerous cases it was found impossible to say whether a site
was completely "dead" or still occasionally partly occupied, so that
distinctive markings had to be abandoned.
PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND, KODIAK ISLAND, ALASKA PENINSULA
Very largely still a terra incognita for anthropology and archeology.
Partly occupied by Indians (Prince William Sound, Kodiak Island?),
partly by mix-blood Aleut (parts of Peninsula, and of Kodiak), partly
by Eskimo. There is but little skeletal or archeological material from
the whole extensive territory.
KODIAK ISLAND AND NEIGHBORHOOD
[FIG. 17]
1. _Litnik_ (probably the Russian "Lietnik," the name for a summer
village).--Indian village on Afognak Bay, Afognak Island. This name is
found on a map made by the Fish Commission in 1889. Apparently it is
the Afognak of other maps (G. D. A.).[62]
2. _Afognak._--On the southwestern part of Afognak Island. Village or
row of scattered dwellings on shore of Afognak Bay, in southwestern
part of Afognak Island. Population in 1890, 409. (G. D. A.) According
to Walker, "an important, occupied native village which has probably
been occupied for a long time. No doubt there are other native villages
in this immediate vicinity."
3. _Spruce Island._--Ouzinkie, or Uzinki; an occupied native village
and cannery. (E. P. W.).[63]
[Illustration: FIGURE 17.--Villages and sites on Kodiak Island]
4. _Eagle Harbour or Ugak Bay._--Possibly the native village "Orlova"
of the Russians. (G. D. A.)
5. _Kiliuda._--Native village, on the north shore of Kiliuda Bay,
Kodiak. Has been generally written Killuda. (G. D. A.)
6. _Nunamiut._--Native village, on the shore of Three Saints Harbor,
Kodiak. (G. D. A.) Better known locally as Three Saints Bay. There
was formerly an old native and Russian settlement at this point and
vicinity, and fishing operations are frequently now conducted here. (E.
P. W.)
7. _Kaguyak._--Village, at Kaguyak Bay, on the southwestern
shore of Kodiak. It may be identical with the Kaniag-miut of the
Russian-American Co., in 1849. (G. D. A.) An old native village at
present occupied by only one or two families. Possibly an old site. (E.
P. W.)
8. _Aiaktalik._--Village on one of the goose islands, near Kodiak.
Population in 1890, 106. (G. D. A.) An occupied native village
consisting of about a dozen houses, but which has probably been
occupied for a long time. (E. P. W.)
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