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Sst-a dp int of bi,-it7           d o*oMidatheg   Phy very little Is
abom sbout the aboriglal LsabietU of the northern portlon ofothe
Alaeba penisula.    larly major eowks  n the bkiae people eotain some
neotle  of tbeninsula and Its inhabitants, yet in each case the data
*eists of   g   atiee and the triatment is s'1porfioial.    Ivan Potrof,
poeoal aent f e  te11. So Census diring the last doeades .f the
niteeth "ety, still remains the foremost soureo on the peoples
of kristel lay and the Alaska peninsula.
Wogloet of this area in early studios on the 1kimo Is primarily
due to theoretical assumptions by anthropologists that the purest
e-mplos of bako culture lie north of the Arctic circle.
Investigations of problems of antiquity and or.gin were thus focused
upon the cultures east of Point hope, Alaska. Recent studies have
shown the Iiportanceo of western Alaska In the development of hkmo
culture as we kw It today (Kroobor, 1939; W1. S. Laughlin, 1953),
although Its primacy was first stated by Sapir as oarlj as 1916
(1916., p.SE.
Kroobor (1939, pp. 23,4) list* twenty-five regional variants of
the hklme oeonmic culture.     The Katmai National monument lies astride
the boundary between two of these oeological reglens: the inland sites
on amknek Zake belonging to the   ristol Bay region, and the Shlibof
Strait sites to the Kodiak Island region, the diviJing line boing the
summits of the Aleutian  nge.   Concomitant with the Oeological
boundary is a linpiistic division, on the basis of which tribal
distinctions have been made sines contact time. Henee the feoser
inhabitants of the inlad sites are subsumed by Petrof under the Agle-