Alaska -- Antiquities; Eskimos; Eskimos -- Anthropometry; Indians of North America -- Alaska; Indians of North America -- Yukon
20. _Kanatak._--A native village consisting of about half a dozen
houses until in 1922, when oil activity in the vicinity caused a small
white settlement to locate at this point. This, however, has since been
almost entirely abandoned by whites. (E. P. W.)
21. _Kuiukuk._--Small village.
22. _Chignik._--Fishing station on Chignik Bay, Alaska Peninsula.
Population in 1890, 193. (G. D. A.) There are three canneries in this
immediate vicinity, a number of natives, and undoubtedly some native
villages and probably old village sites. (E. P. W.)
[Illustration: FIGURE 19.--Villages and sites on the distal half of
Alaska Peninsula]
23. _Kaluiak._--Native village, on the southern shore of Chignik Bay,
Alaska Peninsula. So given by Petrof in 1880 and the Fish Commission in
1888. (G. D. A.)
24. _Mitrofania._--An old native village which has recently been
abandoned or practically abandoned; was apparently a rather important
village at one time. (E. P. W.)
25. _Perryville._--A recently established native village consisting of
natives from various points along the Alaska Peninsula who were moved
there primarily by the Bureau of Education since the Katmai eruption.
(E. P. W.)
26. _Kujulik._--Walker has been informed that there is an old village
site of that name either in this bay or on Kumlik.
27. Old village mentioned on this island; uncertain.
28. _Wosnesenski._--An old village site on this island reported. (E. P.
W.)
29. _Pavlof._--Rev. D. Hotvoitzky, of Belkofski, informed Walker that
there is a very old abandoned village site at the head of this bay.
30. _Belkofski._--Bay, cape, and village on south coast of Alaska
Peninsula. Named, by the Russians as early as 1835 and probably
earlier. (G. D. A.) The most important occupied native village on the
Alaska Peninsula. Quite an old village and a former headquarters for
sea-otter hunting. (E. P. W.)
31, 32. _Morzhovoi._--Native village at western end of Alaska
Peninsula. Named Morzhovoi (Walrus) by the Russians. Variously spelled.
There are or were two villages, one called Old Morzhovoi, the other New
Morzhovoi, being about 12 miles apart. Old Morzhovoi was at the head
of Morzhovoi Bay; New Morzhovoi is on Traders Cove, which opens into
Isanotski Strait. The Greek church here is named Protassof, and Petrof,
1880, called the settlement Protassof. (G. D. A.) An occupied native
village. The natives from this village also live during the canning
season at the cannery in False Pass directly across the strait from
Morzhovoi and at Ikatan a short way to the south. (E. P. W.)
33. _Herendeen._--Walker has been informed that there are some shell
mounds or kitchen middens about this bay. Walter G. Culver, formerly an
employee of the Bureau of Education, but who is at present in Anchorage
in care of the Alaska Railway, can give information regarding this and
can also give information regarding most of the other native villages
along the Alaska Peninsula. (E. P. W.)
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