Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . to certain regions in southern Siberia, bothwest and east of Lake Baikal, and to Mongolia as far as Urga. Itfurnished an opportunity for a rapid survey, from the anthropologi-cal standpoint, of the field, and was made in connection with a pro-longed research into the problems of the origin of the American abo-rigines carried on by Dr. Hrdlicka on both parts of the Americancontinent. The studies of American anthropologists and archeologists havefor a long time been contributing to the opinion that tlie American NO. 30 S
Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . to certain regions in southern Siberia, bothwest and east of Lake Baikal, and to Mongolia as far as Urga. Itfurnished an opportunity for a rapid survey, from the anthropologi-cal standpoint, of the field, and was made in connection with a pro-longed research into the problems of the origin of the American abo-rigines carried on by Dr. Hrdlicka on both parts of the Americancontinent. The studies of American anthropologists and archeologists havefor a long time been contributing to the opinion that tlie American NO. 30 SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I9I2 II native did not originate in America, but is the result, speaking geologi-cally, of a fairly recent immigration into this country ; that he is physi-cally and otherwise most closely related to the yellow-brown peoplesof eastern Asia and Polynesia; and that in all probability he repre-sents, in the main at least, a gradual overflow in the past from north-eastern Siberia. If these views be correct, then it seems that there ought to exist to. Fig. 12.—A Giliak woman from donated by Prof. J. Talko-Hryncewicz. tliis day, in some parts of eastern Asia, archeological remains andpossibly even actual survivals, of the physical stock from which theAmerican aborigines resulted, and every later publication that dealtwith archeological exploration in eastern Asia, or brought photo-graphs of the natives, has in one way or another strengthened theseexpectations. A visit was made to certain parts of southeastern Siberia and tonorthern Mongolia. It included Urga. the capital of outer Mongolia,which encloses two great monasteries, and is constantly visited by 12 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 60 a large number of the natives from all parts of the country. Besidesthe field observations an examination was also made of the anthropo-logical collections in the various Siberian museums within the areacovered. The results were unexpected
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