Alaska -- Antiquities; Eskimos; Eskimos -- Anthropometry; Indians of North America -- Alaska; Indians of North America -- Yukon
80. _Nanvogaloklak._--Eskimo village, in the Big Lake country. Visited
by Nelson in January, 1879. Population in 1880, 100; in 1890, 107. (G.
D. A.)
81. _Nash Harbor._--Living village, Nunivak Island; school; Collins and
Stewart, 1927, anthropometric data, collections (also from other parts
of island).
82. _Koot._--Village, Nunivak Island, near Cape Etolin; partly
occupied. Population in 1890, 117.
83. _Inger._--(In Eleventh Census: Ingeramiut.) Dead village, in
southeast part of Nunivak Island. Population, 1890, 35.
84. _Kvigak_ (_or Kwik_).--Dead village, southern part of Nunivak
Island.
85. _Tachikuga._--Dead village, Nunivak Island, below Cape Mohican.
86. _Kashunuk._--Eskimo village; some collections; skeletal material
in vicinity reported 1927 by Father Delon, of the Holy Cross Mission,
Yukon.
87. _Askinuk._--Eskimo village on the southern shore of Hooper Bay,
Yukon Delta. Native name, from Nelson. Population 1878, 200. (G. D. A.)
87a. Village site.
88. _Agiak._--Eskimo village on promontory north of Hooper Bay.
88a. Village site.
89. _Igag._--Small village.
90. _Kut_ (_Kutmiut_).--Small village on Kut River, head of Scammon Bay.
CAPE ROMANZOF TO NORTHERN (APOON) PASS OF THE YUKON AND NORTHWARD
On this coast there is little information since the time of Nelson.
There are a number of occupied villages as well as of old sites. The
region is bleak and the Eskimo there are reported to live miserably.
The principal Eskimo villages and sites along the lowermost branch of
the Yukon have been given previously. (Fig. 11.)
From the northernmost pass of the Yukon to St. Michael Island the
coast is poor in Eskimo remains. A site of interest here is the old
camping ground, with a few permanent houses, of Pastolik, and there
are two small sites farther up the coast. Pastolik to the writer's
visit was still occasionally occupied by a few Eskimo families. There
are only three houses, but a relatively large and old cemetery speaks
of a larger population, probably camping here in tents during the
summer seasons of the past. The burial grounds were found to be rather
extensive and give indications of containing human bones as well as
artifacts below the present surface (buried by the tundra). The main
part of the burial grounds may well repay an excavation.
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