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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo12amer (find matches)
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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1008-9 iQ the early summer of 1908 the expedition desceodcd the Mackenzie River by boat t Ocean. The winter was spent on the north coast of Alaska, with sled Journeys as far west t Wright Inlet. In the spring and sutomer of 1909 the expedition moved eastward along the c( and sled, and spent the winter foUowlng near Cape Parry 1910 In late April. 1910, Mr Stef&nsso known to bo visitod by the Western E; Boxley encountering no Eskimo until the end of the Jt In May, 1910, Mr, Steffinsson crossed o' the Arctic the Waln- iSt by boat left Langton Bay and Cape I. n. the latter tbo most easterly point Dolphin and Union Strait to Cape when he found a tribe that had never seen a Ictoria Land and then proceeded southward from Llston Island, entering the mouth of the Coppermine River in early June. He spent the s the Coppermine and Doase rivers and Dismal Lake. la early November he went to Langton Bay I communicate with Dr. AodersoD, crossing one of the largest imexplored re^ons In Canada of Vilhjatmur aie/&mai 1911 In AprU. 1011 May and June Mr and Union Strait. about 400 pounds thence along the cc 1912 The winter of I.,aDgton Bay. Mi to Point Barrow, A of ancient vlUagesi Alaska I. Mr. StefdDsson and Dr. Anderson returned to the Coppermine region and In April. Stefinsson and the Esldmo Natkuslak crossed Coronation Gulf, passed through Dolphin crossed the Wollaston peninsula of Victoria Land, Prince Albert .Somid. took thore of sdentiflc collections and hauled these across tlic still frozen sea to the mainland and )a9t to Langton Bay. where the summer was spent In archteological work 1911-12, devoted cldefly to linguistic researches, was spent on Horton River inland fi-om r Stefiosson started from Langton Bay. March 22. 1912. for the thousand-mile sled trip Jaska He reached that place June 13. spent the following two months in the excavatlou Itf^, and left th«re August 13 on board the U. S. revenue cutter "■Bear" bound for Nome,

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