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June 11 Point Barrow, Alaska
coffee. Then we wandered into the native store
as it is called, similar to the other I saw,
but more of a trading post. There was a
set of walrus tusks nearly 2' long, and
upstairs they had quite a store of furs,
many from inland as the rabbits and
shunks indicated. Arctic fox skins are #15
each, nicely tanned. This animal has a
very nice pure white pelt. There is sometimes
some village handicraft for sale, but none
at that particular time. It was 11 p.m. and
village activity was bustling. Kids were
running about everywhere. Down on the
beach they wrestled and scrapped and played
games. Several girls were juggling stones,
2 in one hand while walking along. It was
quite a game. Thus it appears that most
[illegible] sport has to do with vertical
movement—let us consider blanket tossing,
the jumping teter board, stone juggling, and
believe it or not, a lot of the kids were
just jumping up and down as if quite a
lot depended up at. Earlier in the evening
several kids were jumping rope with a
big rope from the blanket toss apparatus.
A few reluctant dancers began. It is of course
individual participation, what little we saw