USE BY ESKIMO

amalgamated through migration and inter-
marriage, and while a hazy tradition of the
coming of a small band of people, supposedly
Asiatics, from seaward, who settled about
the shores of Dixon entrance in the earliest
times, existed in the minds of the oldest
Tlingit, yet there is no doubt, if one may
judge by the family stories, that the coast
was settled from the interior by way of the
greater rivers, and it may be that in times
much earlier than those of which we have
proof or knowledge, these emigrants may
have had access to deposits of jade unknown
today, and that the interesting pieces referred
to may have been carried coastwise by them.

The only ornamentally carved piece of
jade the writer ever saw or heard of along
the Northwest coast or in the interior, was
procured from a Tlingit in southeastern
Alaska, and was worn suspended about the
neck as a scratcher. In shape and size it
represents a canine tooth of the brown bear.

ESKIMO USE OF JADE

Source.—The discovery of the so-called
Jade mountains in Alaska by Lieutenant

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