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A Contribution to the Archaeology of the Upper Kuskokwim

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Charlene Craft Lefebre
Charlene Craft Lefebre*
Affiliation:
San Leandro, Calif
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The Department of Anthropology of the University of Alaska has for many years solicited information concerning archaeological sites in Athabaskan as well as Eskimo territory from trappers, prospectors, casual travelers, and residents. One of the more likely reports, received from B. A. Stone of Medfra, Alaska, concerned the Lake Telida region. Lake Telida is located about 1/2 mile from the McKinley Fork, called the Tatlathno River in early accounts (Herron 1901), of the Upper Kuskokwim drainage. It is about 100 miles southwest of Lake Minchumina and is northwest of Mt. McKinley National Park (see Fig. 82).

During the summer of 1949 2 students of the University of Alaska, Leona Neubarth Lowery and George Schumann, and the author conducted a field trip into this area. This trip was made possible by the author's appointment to the Margaret Snell Graduate Fellowship of the American Association of University Women, to which I should like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude.

Type
Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , January 1956 , pp. 268 - 274
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1956

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