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Number 23
REINDEER
SHAKTOOLIK
REINDEER FUR
THK FIRST IX
THIS SKCTION
A Great Success
An awaker.er among
the Reindeer men along
tliis coast.
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As sp:ice will not permit we shall
r.ot give i*ii account of the trip to
Shaktoolik, whi h was interesting,
i lvigorating and tiresome. On our
arrival we found every thing well
under way. The banners from the
various herds and schools together
with the decorations of the building
made spruce nail extremely inviting.
The aroma <>i coffee and odor of good
things well cooked, or under the
process «»f cooking, made us sure we
had reache 1 the proper place. As this
was our first visit to a Reindeer Fair
we were .is curious as a school toy
to find out all about it right away,
i.ouie Erickson was there smiling and
contented. Miss Hagl erg of Klim was
already fully initiated in the myster
ies of Keindee; ism. neter of Tubutulik
whose favorite sled deer gave out
just before starting was not undaunt
ed; he hied away to the herd and
c night a new one that had never been
tried,and started at once to the fair,
making as good time as the mail team
preceding him. A few such boys as
that along the coast would certainly
i ispire some of the others in the art
of breaking sled deer.
NUMBER
EXTRA
COPIES OF THE
NORTHERN EIGHT
CARRIES THE FAIR
Xews To All Alaska
O.ilv |> iper on EARTH
devoted to the Reindeei
and the Eskimo School.
Monday nor. i: g came bright and
frosty with nerourv about 24below.
At nine o’ lock the school bell raug4
and soon Ho king fro m the cabins and
Sp nu e I lull came forth the delegates
and visitors ready for the little walk
of a mile to the fair ground. Only
two of the many had ever attended a
Reindeer Fair. To us it was new,
exciting and intensely interesting.
As we emerged from the woods
that fringed the river's hank we
came up o. to the tundra which
stretched far away to the mountains
in the S. Our interest was
re kindled as we saw some distance
ahead of us a herd of nearly a
thousand deer.
Just at the right, in the spruce,
smoke curled up thru the keen at
mosphere, telling where the bigtei t
was pitvlied,
■Scattered here and there, some
standing, some walking were groups
of ne:t and women, boys and girls,
all talking, all ready, all waiting foi
the signal that opened the fair. Not
long did we wait for soon thru tlif
frosty morning rang the keen whistle.
It was Ten A. M. The round up ol