Field notes: Alaska, v4401
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M. Brock 1958 Journal Aug 15 Wainwright, Alaska encountered one old lady with a small bucket and three for four small children all gathering individual small pieces of coal. The other two gatherers were men who carried sacks. Also observed was the return of a hunting party. They landed at the beach with their canoes loaded with 13 butchered caribou. When Merl Solomon arrived, he brought with him a set of 53 traps which Bill had been using, giving me four traplines. Merl also brought along a large portion of fresh caribou meat - fortunate since I was given only a small supply of meat. With Merl's help, we set out the four traplines. No new lemmings sign to be seen. A group of dowitchers and longspurs were about, one snowy owl and a flight of brant(?) seen going by. No jaegers in the area. One group of ducks seen flying east over the shoreline, then later while I was at sunset I a group of brant flew over my head (coming from the south) flew out to the shore and also flew east. In the afternoon took a walk to