Alaska field notes, v1299
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615. Silmo Sicrastonyx O 1931 June 11 Unalakleet, Norton Sd, Alaska Eskimo women ripated me last winter. Said it was found on snow Drift & thought by some to have dropped from the sky. Most Natives interviewed denied my knowledge of them. They are certainly stars at any rate. June 20, Campbell, St. Lawrence Sd, Alaska. No. 1616 was taken from a couple of Eskimo kids on the beach by Mr. Otto Wm Eust, who kindly turned it over to me. They are scarred, this being the third seen on St. Lawrence in 3 yrs by Mr. Eust & and are almost unknown by the younger people. The older people have same belief that they fall from the sky when found & even ascribe a zigzag descent to their fall. No. 1616 had four embryos, fairly well developed, and had four teeth (1 mugual, 1 abdominal, 1 thoracic, and 1 axillary) June 21- July 12 Sevoonga, St. Lawrence Sd, Bering Sea, Alaska - Obtained