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Silmore OOOBENDS Walrus (3)
1931
South shore of the Point Hope
And spit I found the carcasses
of two walrus, a 5+7, still
intact except for he head which
had been severed. The natives
say that these walrus are killed
around the Diomede r King Islands,
the tusks cut out of the bodies
cast adrift.
Sept.10 Unalaska,Unalaska Is., Alaska
How Albert Olsen states that up
until 1922 a herd of 15-50 walruses
spent the entire year on the low
land islands north of Izyambek
Bay. Ivory tusks broken in conflict
or from dead carcasses have been
found by him all along the beach,
on the north side of the peninsula.
Otto Wm. Grist Claims that he
has found a "dying place" of old walruses,
on the north side of the peninsula
and has dug up and picked up
many fine aged old tusks, colored
wildlace. Just where this place,
is, he didn't mention, but it seems
to be located near some hot springs.