Jonich 1953 48 Eskimo Notes July 10 Point Barrow, Alaska down. Here, too, the archeologists are busy for Berenih is indeed an ancient camping and village site. The Howard men were explaining the ecology of the primitive men of the Arctic - how they have adapted them- selves to life under such marginal conditions as are found here. The Eskimos have evolved as a race with a well-developed mechanical apti- tude, and there are stories akin to the Thomas Eskimo and his father's watch epic. Recently one of the natives here was said to have found a discarded outboard motor and successfully repairing it so that it has given several years of service. He first carved out missing and broken parts of ivory to see if they would fit, and later made them of iron. In spite of the ducks, some fish and caribou from the interior the Eskimo is dependent upon the ocean for his sustenance. It is a sur- prising fact that the polar seas are the richest in marine life. This week jelly fish as large as a foot across are lodged by the hundreds against the Nunnuk beach. The tiny and small ocean life feeds the whales and the fishes. Fishes and larger inverte- brates feed the seals and walruses, and it is the seals, walruses, and whales that sup-