Explorations and field-work of the Smithsonian Institution in .. . Fig. 6o.—A recently abandoned Eskimo house on Big Diomede Island. In theforeground is shown the outer opening of the stone-walled entrance small wooden shelter covers another entrance to the passage, and beliindthis is the main or inner room which is Fig. 6i.—A dead whale which has drifted ashore near Wales provides meatfor the entire village. The Eskimos are particularly fond of the black outerskin, or muktuk. 67 68 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION The site on Little Diomede Island, though highly importan
Explorations and field-work of the Smithsonian Institution in .. . Fig. 6o.—A recently abandoned Eskimo house on Big Diomede Island. In theforeground is shown the outer opening of the stone-walled entrance small wooden shelter covers another entrance to the passage, and beliindthis is the main or inner room which is Fig. 6i.—A dead whale which has drifted ashore near Wales provides meatfor the entire village. The Eskimos are particularly fond of the black outerskin, or muktuk. 67 68 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION The site on Little Diomede Island, though highly important, is oneof the least accessible because the houses of the present village are builtdirectly over the refuse that has been accumulating for countless gene-rations. In previous years the Eskimos have carried on desultoryexcavations, and it was here in 1926 that Dr. Diamond Jenness andDr. Ales Hrdlicka first obtained some of the elaborately ornamentedobjects of fossil ivory of the Old Bering Sea culture, the oldeststage of Eskimo culture thus far known in the western Arctic. Onmy first brief visit to the island in 1929 the large pit in which theEskimos had been digging for 3 years had reached a depth of over10 feet, and I was able to buy some of the material they had excavated,including some splendid examples of Old Bering Sea art. This p
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