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THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 



Since these Cro-Magnon men may in 

 part be our ancestors, we should Uke to 

 know whence they came and in what 

 manner they faded away or were en- 

 gulfed. To these pertinent questions 

 no ver\- clear answers can be given. 

 There is no reason to believe that the 

 race came into being on the spot. No 

 part of Europe is considered the ancestral 

 home of any known type of man, but all 



tween Magdalenian culture and that of 

 the Eskimo has attracted the attention 

 of many students. Notwithstanding the 

 fact that in midwinter the Eskimo live 

 upon mammals of the sea, their culture 

 is essentially a caribou or reindeer cul- 

 ture. This they have in common with 

 the Siberians and the Lapps. Their 

 bone needles, l>arbed points, and har- 

 poons are in many cases startlingly like 



Reproduced through the courtesy of 



Charles Scribner's Sons 



Head of the "Old Man of Cro-Magnon" (rejuvenated by the restoration of the teeth), showing the method 



of restoration adopted in the models by Dr. J. H. McGregor. By carefully overlaying these ancient skulls with 



clay of a thickness corresponding to averages for the soft tissues of modern men, the approximate appearance of 



these men in life is obtained 



are assumed to have been dispersed from 

 some center in Asia. So far as the Cro- 

 Magnons have racial affinities elsewhere, 

 we find them in Asia and the extreme 

 north of America. 



Our author notes their slight anatomi- 

 cal similarity to the Eskimo but does not 

 discuss the point further. It may be 

 permissible to digress slightly at this 

 point because the striking parallel be- 



those of the Magdalenians. Even the 

 celebrated baton de commandement seems 

 to have its counterpart among the 

 Eskimo where it is a homely implement. 

 Also the undoubted artistic genius of 

 the Eskimo has been cited. While many 

 of the speculations upon this Eskimo 

 parallel are fanciful, it must be consid- 

 ered significant that we have associated 

 with the reindeer of l:)oth the Old and 



