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SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, IQI2 



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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 peoples 

 of eastern Asia ami 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 lie correct, then it seems that there ought to exist to 



Fig. 12. — A Giliak woman from Sachalin. 

 Photograph donated by Prof. J. Talko-Hryncewicz. 



this day, in some parts of eastern Asia, archeological remains and 

 possibly even actual survivals, of the physical stock from which the 

 American aborigines resulted, and every later publication that dealt 

 with archeological exploration in eastern Asia, or brought photo- 

 graphs of the natives, has in one way or another strengthened these 

 expectations. 



A visit was made to certain parts of southeastern Siberia and to 

 northern Mongolia. It included Urga, the capital of outer Mongolia, 

 which encloses two o-reat monasteries, and is constantlv visited by 



