S.\l ITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 



VOL. 60 



A SEARCH IN EASTERN ASIA FOR THE RACE THAT PEOPLED 



AMERICA 



During- the summer of i<;i2, Dr. Ales Hrdlicka visited, partly 

 under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution and partly in the 

 interest of the Panama-California Exposition of San Diego, certain 

 portions of Siberia and Mongolia in search for possible remains of 

 the race that peopled America, whose home, according to all indi- 

 cations, was in eastern Asia. 



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Fig. 11. — A family of Yenisei Ostiaks. Photograph from the Ethnographical 

 and Anthropological Museum of Peter the Great, St. Petersburg. 



The journey extended to certain regions in southern Siberia, both 

 west and east of Lake Baikal, and to Mongolia as far as I'rga. It 

 furnished an opportunity for a rapid survey, from the anthropologi- 

 cal standpoint, of the held, 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 American 

 ci mtinent. 



The studies of American anthropologists and areheologists have 

 for a long time been contributing to the opinion that the American 



