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Mar. 19b James A. Wickersham diary, 1901.

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Collection Name	Wickersham State Historic Site. Manuscripts, 1884-1970s.
Identifier	ASL-MS0107-Diary02-1901-March19b
Title	Mar. 19b James A. Wickersham diary, 1901.
Creator	Wickersham, James, 1857-1939
Contributors	Slemmons, Mary Anne [Transcriber]
Type	Text
Ordering & Use	http://library.state.ak.us/vilda_rights.html
Holding Institution	Alaska State Library, Historical Collections, PO Box 110571, Juneau AK 99811-0571 mailto:asl@eed.state.ak.us
Transcript	As the tepee is a typical {old} Athapascan tent I give an outline of it. [plan view of tent] [captions:] Bed place door (a. stove) The tent is about oval shaped in ground plan, about six feet wide and ten feet long. "Jim", wife and 4 children occupy one end, and the widow and child, and a half grown boy staying with her occupy the other end - A stove in the center furnish a fire for cooking. Beds of cariboo skin, on the ground. Tent on bent poles, made of old tent cloth and cariboo skin, while door is peice of cariboo skin with heavy stick on bottom. Four dogs also occupied the house with the two families. Smoke hole in center - stove pipe in it. A pile of new moose skins lay on the floor, and joints of meat lay on bed in the pan. {No relics - nothing but tin pans &c.} I walked 15 miles along trail before Peterson on his
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