Field notes: Alaska, v4401
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M. Brock 1958 June 13 Journal Wainwright, Alaska Checked Transects III and IV, only thing caught was one female longspur. Bill Maker left for Barrow Today. Mr. Crawford also (then is going to move to Barrow and will teach there next semester) Took a careful walk out on the ocean ice to the eskimo garbage deposits in hopes of finding discarded skulls - none were found. Two days ago I retrieved a fox skull (perhaps red fox) from refuse deposit on tundra about 1,5 mile west of Wainwright (See notes also June 15) Took a walk back to the three old houses a short distance west of the village, to see if I could retrieve anymore artifacts. About a dozen various implements were found on my trip there two days ago. On my return to the village, an old eskimo fellow called to me "you want to see duck?" I said yes, and asked what kind? He replied he'd never seen one like it - I became curious. We went to his house and he brought out a great blue heron. After admiring it, I offered him two dollars for it which he gladly accepted. He claimed he shot it by "the