150 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



and tangible evidence at our disposal, seems to indicate clearly enough 

 that the oldest and at the same time the most advanced Eskimo culture 

 centered about Bering Strait. While its origin is not known it is seen 

 to have strongly influenced the extinct Thule culture of Greenland and 

 Canada and to have supplied the greater number of elements making 

 up the culture of the present Eskimo of Alaska and Siberia. 



