[Illustration: BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY FORTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT PLATE 1 _a_, "Old Minto" on the Tanana. Indian village. (A. H., 1926) _b_, Present Nulato and its cemetery (on hill to right of village) from some distance up the river. (A. H., 1926) _c_, The Greyling River site, right bank, 22 miles above Anvik; site and graveyard (male skeleton) from top of knoll. (A. H., 1926)] [Illustration: BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY FORTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT PLATE 2 _a_, View on the Yukon from above Kaltag. (A. H., 1926) _b_, Indian burial ground, Middle Yukon. (A. H., 1926) _c_, Anvik, from the mission. (A. H., 1926)] At Kaltag Eskimoid features already predominate and some of those seen are fully like Eskimo. There is a tradition of an Asiatic (Chukchee) attempt at Kaltag once. Later in the afternoon photograph some natives and go with Mr. Müller, the storekeeper, and Mr. McLeod, the intelligent local teacher, on the latter's boat, "hunting" along the banks up the stream. Meet an old Indian (Eskimo type) paddling a birch-bark canoe, said to be the only canoe of that sort now on the Yukon. About three-fourths of a mile above the village see caved bank and find a skull and bones--"split" old burial of a woman. A canoe coming, so we all go farther up the beach, pretending to examine stones. It is only the boy who brought me, however, going home with some planks, and he grins knowingly. After that we locate three exposed coffins, two undisturbed and covered with sod. These two, for fear of irritating the natives, are left. But the third is wrapped only in birch bark. It was a powerful woman. With her a bone tool and a white man's spoon. With the burial that had tumbled out of the bank there were large blue and gray beads and three iron bracelets--reserved by the teacher. I gather all the larger bones and we put them temporarily in a piece of canvas. It is hard to collect all--the men are apprehensive--it might be dangerous for them if detected. Everything smoothed as much as possible, and we go across the river to examine two fish nets belonging to the trader. One of these is found empty; but the other contains five large king salmon, 15 to 20 pounds each, three drowned, two still alive. The latter are hooked, hoisted to the edge of the boat, killed with a club, and, full of blood, thrown into the boat--great, stout, fine fish. To secrete our other findings from the natives the storekeeper gets a large bundle of grass and ties it to my package. We shall be bringing "medicine."