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Show Foxy Medtcme Man Anglers, especially those who seldom sel-dom have any luck, may glean a novel tip from the methods of "Old Ioguk," medicine man and sovereign of an Isolated Iso-lated tribe of Eskimos living on the wind-swept mud flats between the Yukon Yu-kon and Kuskowin rivers In western Alaska, says the Pathfinder Magazine. Every spring Just before the salmon salm-on run up the rivers to spawn, Ioguk goes to the river mouths, where he performs queer incantations and magic rites. He wears a wooden mask resembling a salmon trout and dances and chants, commanding the llsh to swim up the streams to his people. For this "mysterious" power Ioguk exerts over the fishes he visits every Eskimo home and collects one-fourth of all the fish caught as his share. |