July 10 Point Barrow, Alaska not drafty. Only a tiny hole would be needed to allow ventilation. The passageway was used for meat storage for its temperature might be well below freezing while that of the upper room a comfortable 60 or 70. Of course such a house must have been rather dimly lighted and without many conveniences, but the people were able to live in it. Besides the flesh and fat of sea mammals that supplied the vitamins and sustenance necessary to life the skin and bones provided clothing and tools. That was it. Trading with inland peoples provided furs of land mammals. I mentioned previously some of the facts con- cerning the Eskimos of the Brooks Range and their caribou economy. The May- June, 1953, Pacific Discovery is devoted to Alaska and contains several articles on the peoples of the Arctic Slope. Studies have been made of the fish life in Arctic waters and these reveal an abundance of kinds and some species occurring in great numbers. The Greenland Eskimos depend upon fish for part of their food but the same species here are not used. Inland lakes and streams contain fish if these creatures have been able to get there and if waters do not freeze solidly,