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E.M.Brock
1958
Journal
July 13 Barrow, Alaska
their hands on. The procedure when seals are taken (according to Man Brewer) is that the skin goes to one Eskimo and the meat to another, therefore the skin was accounted for. But another skin will perhaps be obtained at another time.
July 14 Processed lemmings. These were lemmings frozen from last fall. These lemmings were dead lemmings, from the fall die off no telling how long they had lain on the tundra. Also, no telling how long after they were picked up, it was until the Eskimos put them in an ice cellar. Also many of these people's ice cellars are not good and don't freeze thoroughly. It all boils down to the fact that these lemmings which were shipped to Barrow on February 17, 1958 are optimally rotten. Therefore most of the skulls and skins are not being saved. It was noticed that several [illegible] of the lemmings had been chewed on, not as if by jaegers or owls or foxes but rats cannibalism!
Retrieved traplines VII + VIII in the late afternoon. Only one pectoral sandpiper caught; this was the only animal caught in both lines for the three days. Shot