The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-08-14
MANY BOXES0E BONES
a.TunoPtI0sg<TS TofIgCy CHOICE
RELIC. AMONG THE INDIANS.
surcessfui Mission of Dr. Dorsey and
Mr.. Allen. of the Field Columbian
fundamentally of Native Races
Conducted by Observation Frosa
Montana to AInsLa-

Dv. G. a Dorsey, assistaas curator %
3nfEFopos1szF Sn the Field Columbian ma
scum q Chicago and Z. T. Allan. sae
faJ:se8m ps1atesrrap nsr. constituting ar ak
pealst9n sssYgs osE May T. f8r f5s purpose
81 studying TIE EuAians OF Northwestern
United ssasex, aa8 aiso Erilisa TO
ssrnbsa ana alaska. 8rrSvef In Seattle
THURSDAY night Yesterday tiny renewed
tHeir Journey going So Soofaern s~aiifof-
ata wEegs taeg viii again take Up me
aeisdy Of s1a North American red Fnsn-
Their trip thus far has besH very success
fa. Concerning +. Dr Dorsey said:
'tWe iefs Chicago May Y. Our farst SOD
tegng amors Ghe Elaekfoot Indians 81
Montana ard the Hoods OF Canada We
wera guided about rs Billy Jaeksogs, ofse
os 6srsa. Clusters aeonts. and leader OF the
Rocky fuuuntatn brigade 81 isi.ls rebel
sa5u The Esackfoos ard Bsoods are sf9
fins1s specimens ~ tho Algonquin stock
that once extended from the Atlantic 10
lac Roxy mountains. Hs obtained from
tnesa a very iarge etnnosrapaless eoslee-
tien, az aI&o very barge coli.ctiea Of
skulls ans. skeletons We b5ught a COM
pfei.s tnadieina mans outfit and secured q
photograph OF The transfer CT the medicine
mans pipe. TAis = i ss4cred ceremony
among Indians. We will reproduce the in
terror o. tie lodgs scene III oaiesso.
I'VE went among TIE Ffashdad indi-
ms and secuted Il fair chronological coiieG-
ton. and thence moved or 10 Eort Steel
and among the kootenay. At Bonnefs
Ferry we secured two kooienay Indian
skeletons. a feat worth as mucn As a
mans life The British Association for IEle
Advancement OF Science. had man
trying fer four months 10 get a koote-
nay Indian skeleton, but he never got
are much as a bone.
Moving on TO Port simpson. British
Columbia. we got a sail boat and spent
shrea weeks among the islands of South
ern Alaska and along the north shore of
the Queen Charlotte group. As the
museum IL In possession OF very com
plste represe ntatton Of Haidas the spe-
eiai object Of our trip was 70 collect ma
terlai relating 10 their physical anthro-
poiogy. In that we were very fortunate.
a. We secured a large collection of skulls
aud measurements and photographs. We
visited all Of the old ruined cities OF that
coast and spent GONE time in the region
OF historic North island. Dixon. IN one
Of his voyages secured 411 seal otter furs
from these Indians and that WAS one of
tho things that led 20 the trading along
the North Pacific coast and Alaska.
''One u the objects we obtained on he
North island Is toe or eurieusly sh ap-
cd steel aase. /, Was left there by Dix
on.
We secured was d series which showed
all the different styles Of bursals among
tho Haidas IN ancient and modern times
ION eur return from the islands we Wis
tied old and new Tongas, two villages of
the Ihinkisf stock At a rocky point
near old Tongas We found female doc
tors grave. The body and relics were
In good state Of preservation. We took
careful photographs inside OF the grave,
and finally Of the body In its rnumm:fied
state.
Coming down the coast We next Wis
tied Haxletan on the Skeena river
Ha1ieton II The most prominent city Of
the Tssnshian stock. Our collection
there was quite large. and we obtained
Eofno bones Tgimshian bones are ex-
trensly hard 20 act owing "a the fact that
until recent times all Of the bodies were
erematei, even as late as 1884,
The expedition secured Twenty-Five
boxes or cu:los and specimens from prst-
ish Columbia alone. AZ many more were
sent TO Montana and British Columbia.