The Alaska daily empire., 1918-12-28
"Cuve Man" Methods Used By Tribes Whose Homes
 Are 0n Arctic Ice Hoes

| tribes that Peepsuk feared. It was the menace of the Arctic that over took him. Not a month after Shan non had given his promise, the trap per was out in his kilak, near the Barter Islands. The skiff overturn- ed He was swallowed without even a struggle in the whirlpool. The first | thing that shannon did when he reached Point Barrow was to take out legal adoption papers giving him the guardianship of the little girl.
 The next thing was to buy up all We had not even heard of the Sink ing of the Lusitania. But we knew | the United States could not keep out of the struggle. We heard of Amer ica's part just a month before the | armistice was signed"
 Prospecting Since 1900 Since 1900 Shannon has been pros pecting in Alaska. Never before had he struck as far North as Victoria Land, where the new tribe called by Stefansson the blonde Eskimos" is located.
 "Victoria Land is 1000 miles to the Northeast of the Barter Islands and about 2,000 miles North of Nome It is in latitude 73, and is under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Govern ment,' said shannon.
 "It is a primitive, untaught, but intelligent people who live on this barren island, where for more thai six months of the year it is perpet- ual night Never before had they , seen white people, but they were neither afraid nor hostile. They wore . no clothes but skins and ate no , food but fish, bear meat, seal and l deer.
 They seem strange mixture of Mongolan and Indian. They have , all the honesty of the Chinese and , the resourcefulness of the highest | type of Indian. They have been call F ed the blonde Eskimo but I never saw any light-haired or fair skinned Natives among them Their coloring is no different from that of ether Al askans."
 With these people unspolied by civilization, the white men walled IT by the ice lived for two years. The Kocmoluks, as their tribe is called taught the visitors new ways of trap ping and fishing. They gave then food, but they would eat no moderr fare in exchange.
 Shannon continued:
 They wander about from one ic' fi3c to another They have no boats br. they are like Arabs i'll thei re-. .essnesa. The one great diversion IS lhc T a. amjly in the Fall as sooi a3 tho i-s llrdens. Then the men women arl children of the trip gatle. for an annual celebrat,rl and feasting. They dance, sing rray and revel for days. They par for the winter seal hunting.
 Money they do not know. Ther is no upper class among the ho' moluks. They need no government Such thing as a gun is unknow to them. Their organization IS con munistic. If one man has meat an his neighbor's hut is bare. they g down together and eat.
 "A man has no exclusive propert rights. He cannot even koep his vii If another man is strong enough take her from him. At aiIy time husband is in danger cf losing n spouse, for there are not enough w men to go around.
 "If a Native sees woman to n liking, he goes into the hut where sf lives, grabs her and carries her ihis igloo Should the rightful hu band protest tug of war with u prospective bride as a human rol ensues.
 Many Women Carried of
 Many a time have I seen wom' carried off without the slightest op cern for their wishes. But oft
 the girl has preference and wh she struggles against one Of t
 suitors, he is almost sure to To: lOnce she is carried into the h
 she is acknowledged the lawful WI
 of the victor. Many of the childr
 are left to die at birth, but tho
 that are raised are tenderly car
 for"
 shannon was silent when the bit'
 struggles of the white men u ended often in death were mention "We had Qnough tO eat We n plenty of work to hunt the meat needed. But the monotony and
 lonliness struck some of the II