"While in we made four camping trips with and outboard motor, visiting Alaganik on the and sites in the Sound from to . The gave us several lifts, and in August the took us for a ten-day cruise around the Sound, stopping at , , , and other villages where we had an opportunity to talk to the natives, and also touching at a few of the ancient village sites on our route."
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Columbia University alumniAnthropologists from the United StatesPeople from MichiganArchaeologists from the United StatesMembers of the United States National Academy of Sciences
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(230 pages; 1st edition 1934; with a chapter by Bruno Oetteking)
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Frederica de Laguna
(October 3, 1906 – October 6, 2004) was an American , , and , as well as the author of two detective novels and a history-oriented book for young readers. She was from 1966 to 1967 president of the (AAA). She was elected in 1969 a Fellow of the (AAAS) and in 1975 a Member of the U.S. (NAS).
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