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Show Foxy Medicine Man Anglers, especially those who seldom sel-dom have any luck, may glean a nove' tip from the methods of "Old Iosuk," 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 Kuskowln 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 wean a wooden mask resembling a salmon trout and dances j j and chants, commanding the fish to t j swim up the streams to his people. I For this "mysterious" power Ioguk : exerts over tie fishes he visits every ! Eskimo home and collects one-fourth j of all the fish caught as his share. |