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tunately taken ill, and was unable to return to New York until April 

 17, 1902. 



The results of this work are studies of the ethnography and an- 

 thropology of the Chukchee and Asiatic Eskimo, and partly of the 

 Kamchadal and of the Pacific Koryak. These studies are illustrated 

 bv extensive collections, embracing five thousand ethnographical ob- 

 jects, thirty-three plaster casts of faces, seventy-five skulls and 

 archaeological specimens from abandoned village sites and from 

 graves. Other material obtained includes three hundred tales and 

 traditions; one hundred fifty texts in the Chukchee, Koryak, Kam- 

 chadal and Eskimo languages; dictionaries and grammatical sketches 

 of these languages; ninety-five phonographic records, and measure- 

 ments of eight hundred sixty individuals. I also made a zoological 

 collection and kept a meteorological journal during the whole time of 

 my field-work. 



The investigators who took part in the field-work of the 

 expedition are all engaged in studies of the materials collected. 

 Some of the re.sults have been published, but much remains to 

 be done. It is of course ]:)remature to draw any final conclu- 

 sions from the materials collected, because the greater part is not 

 yet available for purposes of comparison, and the investiga- 

 tion of the anthropometrical material has not even been taken 

 up. It seems clear, however, even at this time, that the isolated 

 tribes of eastern Siberia and those of the northwest coast of 

 America form one race, similar in type, and with many elements 

 of culture in common. It would seem that the unity of race 

 was much greater in former times than it is now; that the in- 

 vasion of eastern tribes in America, such as the Eskimo, Atha- 

 pascan and Salish, and of western and southern tribes in Asia, 

 stich as the Yakut and Tungus, have disturbed the former con- 

 ditions. Nevertheless enough remains to lead us to think that 

 the tribes of this whole area must be considered as a single race, 

 or at least that their culture is a single culture,. which at one time 

 was found in both the northeastern part of the Old World and 

 the northwestern part of the New World. Thus the Jesup Ex- 

 I^edition seems to have established the close relationship between 

 the peoples of Asia and America. 



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