Jonich 1953 Erberius Notes June 11 Point Barrow, Alaska was groups of 2 to 4 men, or women, separately. They did a kind of rhythm with the hands and mainly stamped the right foot in time with the music. But things didn't develop into much, lots of standing around. After all it was the first session of the season. There was plenty of color in the crowd and some rather gay parkas were displayed, in the nicest kinds of furs. As a matter of fact some seemed like factory made jobs and might well have been. There is a lot of loose money around - I hear that watermelons and things like that all very well, brought in by airfreight at some horrible price. The ladies tend to wear a bright colored cloth outer garment over their fur dress-length parka. There was much wolverine skin parka trim as it is a choice item for this purpose, and one of the warmest. There was all kinds of foot- wear, from Sears rubber boots and B.L. shoes to every style of native-made muk- luk. The muklukes primarily are sealskin boots, the original snowboot, lined with warm fur, like caribou for example. They are rather loose fitting with crossbrid- ings to tighten them over the foot and