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Although archaeological discoveries have opened up for us a 
vista into the history of the Eskimo during the past thousand, or it 
may be two thousand, years, they are very far from disclosing the 
origin of this peculiar people or deciphering the beginnings of its 
strange civilization. The culture revealed by the oldest remains yet 
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Snap, stone clift' at Flnnr-de-LvH. iSJ owfonndlancl. ’where Kskiiiin (?) quarried out their 
pots in pre-European times. ( l^hoto hi/ I). Jennesn.) 
examined is so well integrated, so perfectly adapted to the peculiar 
conditions of an Arctic coast-line, that it could hardly have evolved 
within a few years, but was rather the slow growth of many centuries. 
We have discovered no trace of such a growth within Canada itself, 
and several indications point to the dev’-elopment of a still earlier 
culture on both sides of Bering strait.^ Even this earlier culture, 
however, is far from primitive, so that ultimately we may have to 
seek along the Arctic sho^res of Siberia for the birthplace of Eskimo 
1 D, " AreluTnltigit'ul 1 live's! igutiim is in Hcriiif; Stiiiir’; Xutjonnl Museum of Canada, 
Hull. ,51). jip, 77 1 (Otiavva, 192S). C'ullius, II. H. ; " I’l’eh i.storie Arl of Ihe .Vlaskaii K.skiiiio’’; Stnitli. 
Misc. Coll., Pub. 3023 (Wasliington, 1929). 
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