E.M.Brock 1958 Aug 18 Journal Wainwright, Alaska This year, Merl Solomon who was with me at the time told me that this eskimo had told him (in the native tongue) that they were expecting me to pay for the beluga skull I obtained the other day. I knew that M.V.I.Z. was going to remember me, there are several seal skulls about the village that could also be bought. It seems like now-a-days everything has a price on it, partially due to Robert Ranch. In the morning several geese I hadn't seen flying west Aug 19 Following are the dimensions of Waldo Bodfish's umiak and side view This umiak consisted of nine yupik skins, but an umiak usually constructed of 8 or 9 yupik skins. Mr. Wilam Eekie (schoolteacher) claims that at Noorvik (near Kotzebue) the eskimos use yupik skins. In a long talk with Byron James (Wainwright resident), I found out that the large cabin at the spitte by the Wainwright Inlet (Lagoon,) which was supposed to have originally been built by Admundsen, was later sold to Captain John Becklin who apparently made frequent trips to the Arctic. Becklin, according to James, was