LO SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 60 
AS SEARCH IN PASTERN ASIA PORSTHD RACE THAT PROPEED 
AMERICA 
During the summer of 1912, Dr. Ales Hrdli¢ka 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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Fic. 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 Urga. It 
‘furnished an opportunity for a rapid survey, from the anthropologi- 
cal standpoint, of the field, 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. Hrdliéka on both parts of the American 
continent. 
The studies of American anthropologists and archeologists have 
for a long time been contributing to the opinion that the American 
