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PREHISTORIC ARMOR THAT
BELONGED TO ESKIMOS WAS
SENT NATIONAL GEO. SOCIETY
Eskimo From Cape Prince of
Wales Being Sent—Point of Or
gin Found—Several Mounds of
Later Date.
(bv The Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—A ship
ment of ancient Eskimo armor,
worn in battles in prehistoric Al
aska thousands of years ago, al
ong with many articles of house
hold use unearthed in the Far
North are now on their way here,
the National Geographic Society
has announced.
The shipment includes much
that adds greatly to the myster
ious history of Alaska in the
times before white men began to
jot down history the Geographic
says. Plans are now being made
to exhibit the discoveries here.
The relics of prehistoric “civil
ization" were unearthed during
the past summer near Cape Prin
ce of Wales, westernmeost point
of North American continent by
a joint expedition of the Geogra
phic and the Smithsonian Insti
tution under the direction of
Henry B. Collins, Jr., of the
Smithsonian. The Chief assist
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ants were James Ford, of Louis
iana State University and Harri
son Prindle of Washington, D.C.
Bone For Armor
The party found weapons, tools
and household articles which had
been preserved for centuries- in
the peruetually frozen Alaskan
soil and which furish valuable
new knowledge of two ancient
Eskimo cultures of Alaska and
fill in many gaps in the history of
the ancenstors of the modern Es
kim-o cultures of Alaska and fiill
in many gaps in the history of
the histosy of the ancestory of
the modern Eskimo.
The armor, which was uncover
ed in mounds of ancient rubbish
accumulated over long periods
from villages long since abandon
ed, was made of slats of bone,
the Geographic says, and is sim
ilar to the slat armor used by
some Asiatic tribes.
Also discovered were harpoon
and arrow heads, fish lines of
whalebone, fragments of cloth
ing, cooking utensils, combs, awls,
needles, ceremonial masks and
even toys. The toys, officials
said, are most interesting, being
carved out of bone in minute
imitation of boats and animals, j
Find Point of Origin
The mounds were of good size,
the expedition reported, one of
them being eight feet in depth, j
The digging process was extreme,
ly slow it was said, because the
frozen soil thawed only a few
inches each day.
The archeologists are believed
by the Geographic to have uncov
ered the first s.te of the old Eski
mo “Thule Culture” ever to be
found in Alaska. Thule culture
was a stage of development just
prior to the civilization reached
when white men first found Eski
mos. It is characterized pretty
definitely by certain types of i
tools, weapons and art objects, j
Geographic officials explained. ‘
Thule culture spread over the
entire Arctic as far cast as Green
land, and while it has been gen- j ■
eral known for some time to have j .
I existed in those regions, the new*
finds, the Geographic thinks, con-!
firms the important archeological
fact that it spread eastward from I
i Alaska.
Strangely enough, the Society i
points out, many of the proofs of t
this ancient culture were found
in a mound previously uncovered
by Dr. Diamond Jenness of the
Museum of Canada, first explorer
to make systematic excavations
in Alaska.
More Recent Mounds
In the mound Mr. Jenness had
abandoned the expedition dug up
evidence that Thule Culture was
derived from a still earlier stage
of life known as Birnirk Culture.
This Birnirk age, according to
■
the Geographic report, once flour
ished in the region surrounding
Point Barrow. , .
In successive layers downward,
the expedition’s excavators found
arrow heads gradually changing
from the Thule style to that of
the Birnirk type. Two miles
from this mound, the archeolo
gists found an older one in which
remains were entirely of the Bir
nirk type. It was the first dis
covery of the Birnirk Culture
outstfe the Point Barrow region,
the National Geographic related.
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