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E.M.Brock
1958
Journal
Aug 16 Wainwright, Alaska
skulls.
Evening check of the trapline yielded three lemmings all Dicostomys. Where are the Lemmings?
No jaegers seen yet. One snowy owl seen this morning!
Aug 17
Traps checked in the morning - no lemmings. While checking the traps, I observed another group of about 100 brant(?) coming from the south, reaching the shore and turning and flying east.
I took a walk for a one mile west on the tundra and back; no lemming signs, no jaegers, no foxes, no snowy owls.
In the evening all Dicostomys taken in traplines.
Attended the very interesting evening church service in the Village
Aug 18 Checked traplines in morning and made utilization checks of all four lines. Took measurements of all dimensions of Waldo Bodfish's somiak as requested by Marshall Schalk back at A.R.H.
Bought a polar bear skull which I saw lying on a rock in front of one of the eskimo houses. I paid him three dollars for it and he told me it was a female killed in February of