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Title: Descriptive booklet on the Alaska historical museum
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Alaska Historical Library and Museum Kashevaroff, Andrew P., b. 1863 Alaska Historical Association
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Publisher: Juneau, Alaska
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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dth and from six feet to twentyand thirty feet in length. On the up-per edge of the seine a series of round-ed wooden floats shaped in the form ofbirds and seals and handle-like sinkersof ivory along the lower edge arestrung at intervals. Stone weights fre-quently alternate with ivorj^ weights,which serve both for sinkers andhandles. In some localities fishing is donewith dip-nets- These are made fromthe same material as the seines. Thespecimens in the collection are madefrom split whalebone and willow roots.The mouth of the net is held open by arim of whalebone. Aleuts and otheraboriginal tribes of Alaska also usednets for the capture of the birds. Inthe weaving of the nets and seines theEskimo uses shuttles made from ivory,bone and wood which vary in size ac-cording to the use and locality. Ingauging the size of the mesh, mesh-sticks of the same material are used.In the collection there are shuttlesvarying from three to sixteen inchesand the mesh sticks from one-half toseven inches.
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n^ ALASKA HISTORICAL MUSEUM Utensils and Implements Wooden Dishes, Trays and Buckets. Dr. E. W. Nelson In the 18th AnnualReport of the Bureau of AmericanEthnology on the Eskimo about theBering Strait, Page 70, says: TheTinne of the lower Yukon, adjoiningthe territory occupied by the Eskimoare expert in woodworking. They fash-ion from the spruce large numbers ofwooden dishes, buckets, trays andladles which they ornament with redand black paint. They make trips downthe river for the purpose of sellingtheir products to the Eskimo. In addi-tion to this trade with the Eskimo, thearticles manufactured by these peopleare distributed over a much greaterextent of territory by means of inter-tribal trading among the Eskimosthemselves. In the collection thereare wooden bowls carved from blocksof soft driftwood. Serving dishes orna-mented with blue beads imbedded inthe brim at equal intervals. There aredrinking cups made from wood andwhalebone . Many of the specimensshow the method of mending woo

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