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AcknowledgementsThe archaeological field work on which this study is based wasfinanced by the Canada Council; the National Museum of Canadaprovided additional financial support so that related ethnographicinformation could be collected. I am grateful to Dr. David J. Damas,Human History Branch, National Museum of Canada, for his interestand encouragement. Able assistance in the field was provided byMr. David Lumsden and Mr. Douglas Smith, at that time undergraduatestudents in anthropology at the University of Toronto.In the field, the following individuals were particularly helpfulbecause of their interest in the work and their willingness to contributetime and effort to help me solve the many logistic problems thatare associated with archaeological excavations in Alaska: Mr. andMrs. Charles Lucier of Anchorage, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Stovall, andMr. and Mrs. Alfred Andree of Dillingham. Most of the ethnographicinformation in this study was obtained with the willing assistance ofMr. Ivan Ishnook, Mr. Blunka Ishnook, Mr. Antoine Johnson, andMr. Charles Nelson, all of New Koliganek.The author is also grateful for the help and advice of many peopleduring his study of the collections from the Tikchik site. Expertassistance in the laboratory was provided by Miss Kathleen Lynch,then an undergraduate student in anthropology at the University ofToronto. Her skill and careful work are apparent in the pottery reconstructionsillustrated in Plate 11. Dr. Walter Tovell of the RoyalOntario Museum identified lithic materials from the site and Dr.R. M. Organ of the same institution gave the author much valuableadvice concerning the cleaning and preservation of metallic specimens.Assistance in identifying and describing trade goods was providedby Professor Kenneth E. Kidd of Trent University, Peterborough,Ontario, and Mr. D. S. Weaver of Waterloo, Ontario.Don E. Dumond of the University of Oregon kindly examined theTikchik pottery and offered valuable advice concerning its relationshipto pottery from other sites in southwestern Alaska. Dr. Dumondalso made available his detailed knowledge of pottery sequenceson the Alaska Peninsula and, at a considerable sacrifice of his own215Dr.