New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-23
ORIGIN OF POLAR TRIBES
NEW THEORY ADVANCED.
Jesup Expeditions ShozU Common
Source, 1t Is asserted.

According to conclusions reached by DR.
Franz Boas. curator Of ethnology Of the Amer
lean Museum OF Natural History. previous theo-
ries 10 the origin OF the American and
Asiatic tribes around the Pole are founded IN
error Basing his opinion data collected BY
a number of expeditions sent out by Morris K
Jesup. DIR. Boas declares that these tribes
around the Behring Sea and east to Greenland
are subdivisions OF one race. and that tina rs
quimaus position a distinct race, so long
conceded. can no longer be sustained
The material on which these conclusions of
DIR. Boas's were reached was gathered the
American side by parties under DR.. Boas him
self and Harlan L Smith, OF the American
Museum and Professor Livingston Farrand. of
Columbia University. and on the Asiatie side by
DR.. Barthoid Laufer. Gerard Fowke. Waldemar
]. JocheIson and Waldemar Bogoras. Much Of
this has already been placed on exhibition IN
the American Museum. and forms the largest
aggregation Of the kind in the world To DR..
Franz Boas. curator OF ethnology. was assigned
the task Of formulating decision on the col
Iections as a whole His statement Is as
follows:
While it IS OF course premature TO draw any
final conclusions. il seems clear. however even
at this time that the isolated tribes OF Eastern
Siberia and those OF the northwest coast OF Amer
lea form race. similar IN type and with may
the unity OF much greater in former times
than it is that the invasion Of Eastern tribes
In America such as the Esqui1laI ti ~
and salish and Of western and southern noes az,
turbed the former conditions -,
Nevertheless. enough remains 10 lead US to think
that the tribes OF this whole area must be consld-
cred single at least. that their culture
is a single culture which at one time was found
and the northwestern part Of the New World
The culture OF Asia and America has is
Pacific Ocean. between the afrieth and ,hfty-ffth
Sea. north Of the hftyffth parallel are intruders
who pushed IN IN more recent times ! hey are 50
etc as To make If dificuit often to distinguish
them In Alaska It is often hard 10 tell where the
IRE and conditions Correspond with remarkable
semblances- AL the tribes apparently had com
mon ancestry.
Before this array OF evidence, Sir Boyd Daw-
kinss theory that the Esquinaus were of paleo-
Iithic or preglacial origin. and once inhabited
the present sites OF Paris and London. says
DR.. Boas. goes down in wreck. Somewhere in
British North America the Esquimaus, here
tofore regarded as the oldest existing race.
originated, Dr. Boas concludes, and are not
even q race by themselves.
Professor Marshall H SaviHe. Of the Ameri-
can Museum, has drawn a line through the
northwestern States along the Columbia River.
continuing through -4sia- He asserted yesterday
that there Is no relation. racial or otherwise,
between the aborigineS north and south Of that
line.
Thus the Jesup expeditions have established a
great new race Of more than circumpOlar ex-
tent, with exact boundaries defined. extending
far south into the temperate zone. In this area
both the prehistoric and the historic American
abOrigtneS have predominated, establishing
least, IL is asserted, dual origin OF mankind.
The Esquinaus told DR.. W H. Dali that the
Siberian Esquimaus originally came from the
Diomedes Islands, to the northeast. where they
were, as they are to-day. bOwhead (Whalel men.
who We're allowed TO settle by the Chuckchis
deer men)- Tradition thus supports the Boas
theory Of British-American origin OF the Esqui-
mau.