Explorations and field-work of the Smithsonian Institution in .. . er officers received valuable information,specimens, and aid. This vessel, furthermore, enabled us to reach anddo some work on a large old site on the western coast of Large Kiska,which previously had remained unapproachable. The work on the westernmost islands proved very heli^ful and gavemany specimens of cultural nature, but skeletal remains of man werealmost absent, the people here, as well as elsewhere in the AleutianIslands, having evidently buried many of their dead either well apartfrom the sites or in more or less dist
Explorations and field-work of the Smithsonian Institution in .. . er officers received valuable information,specimens, and aid. This vessel, furthermore, enabled us to reach anddo some work on a large old site on the western coast of Large Kiska,which previously had remained unapproachable. The work on the westernmost islands proved very heli^ful and gavemany specimens of cultural nature, but skeletal remains of man werealmost absent, the people here, as well as elsewhere in the AleutianIslands, having evidently buried many of their dead either well apartfrom the sites or in more or less distant caves and crevices, which couldnot be located with the means and time at our disposal and under thegreat handicaps of almost constant fogs and frequent stormy weather. Mainly as a result of the information and specimens brought to usby the officers and men of the Brozvn Bear, the party next endeavoredto reach Kagamil, one of the Four Mountain Islands, where animportant mummy cave was known to exist. The first effort to reach SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I936 61. Fk;. 54.— Kaganiil l>land: Tlie party at the mouth of Mummy Cave I.
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