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Identifier: 1870alaskaitsres00dalluoft (find matches)
Title: Alaska and its resources
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927
Subjects: Alaska
Publisher: Boston : Lee and Shepard
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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obable that it has become, from constant inter-course, permanently mixed with Chukchee words. Coming, from a country where driftwood was abundant, to adistrict where it is very scarce, modifications have been necessaryin the mode of life of the Tiiski, of which we have, as alreadyshown, some historical record. At present the method of con-structing their houses, sledges, and many other articles, is verysimilar to, though not quite identical with, the mode of the Chiik-chees. They have no reindeer, however, and use dogs to drawtheir sledges. The summer houses of the Tuski are made of wal-rus-skins, spread over a light frame. These are divided by hang-ing hides into various compartments where the inmates sleep andwork during the day. They fill sealskin bags with moss and lay * This subject will be more fully treated in a work in preparation for the Smith-sonian Institution by Dr. George Gibbs and the writer. This work will also containa large number of hitherto unpublished vocabularies.
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ABORIGINAL INHABITANTS. 379 soft skins over them for beds. Their tents at Plover Bay wereplaced on the pebbles near the beach. They burn moss soakedin oil, which is placed in an earthen dish with a ledge on eachside, where a roll of moss serves for a wick. This, with a largerone for cooking over, is used to light and warm the tents inwinter. To warm themselves they squat directly over the lamp,,and cover themselves and it with a mantle of skin. Their food isprincipally the flesh and blubber of the walrus, seal, and whale.They eat much of it raw, but usually stew the leaner parts.They chop up the round-leafed sorrel and scurvy grass or water-cresses, and make a kind of salad, which is allowed to fermentbefore it is eaten. They also eat the berries of the heath (Em-petrinn nigrum), and obtain salmon trout from a lake near thevillage. The latter, as well as the leopard seal, is caught in arawhide net. They use slings with great dexterity, and alsothree-sided arrows and darts of walrus iv

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