PREHISTORIC MAN

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 128, 3 June 1927, Page 3

PREHISTORIC MAN

RESEARCH IN ARCTIC

SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION'

(From "The Post's" Representative.) SAN FRANCISCO, 3rd May. An expedition has left Washington for Alaska, with a view to determining, if possible, the routes of migration of prehistoric man from Asia to America. Its members comprise two ethnologists of the Smithsonian Institution. The plan was developed as the result of the survey of Alaska by Dr. Hrdlicka, of the Bureau of Ethnology, last summer. The two investigators will do their main work on Nuiiivak Island, an isoInted spot on tho edge of tho Arctic, about which no scientific information of any sort exists. They will be dropped on tho island by tho Bureau of Education's cutter, but they do not know how they will get away, as there arc no boats calling there regularly. Dr. Hrdlicka, while making his survey last summer, found that tho natives of Nunivnk represent one of.tho most conservative Eskimo groups, left. The investigators hope to get from them, consequently, tribal lore which other Alaskan Eskimos have forgotten. Many old sites also are reported on the island, and these will be excavated.