The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-11-10
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XVyH0NCH came rne AuS
M For mcfe than four osnfNesss
w this problem has vsxsa mon 2!
lssrning. but not until ~ Ps1or,
year has . definite. scientsnc enos
been made 10 solve II by systemaaS ~
aeareh in soreign chimes.
r nave tusa had a most intessesnS
,ntervew with the man who mas msoe
this eRort-Dr. Ales Hrdncke. . 1917.
"A native OF Bohemia. who - cuH.eos
OF phsical anthropology In our Nssao"-
"A nu:eun here I visited HIM yes0or.
Aav a. has laboratory in the new mu-
..un Suilding. save for time spent IN
m.kine expeditlons into many ceun-
N,ss. Of the Old and New Worh, ".
Urdhcka has lived in America mnee ne
came here 10 receive q part OF n1s COL
lesiate education. more tnen es
wears ago For ten years ne D. w."
the governments chief ausnS ="
the physical chAracterisucs
races. His laboratory conaAans
manner OF Instruments OF pro" ~
measuring man--his head. ns tes
his body. his limbs. mas !.
..r.,,g,h within It's long sweep OF
connecting halls are row after row oi
cas.. alled with precious. and often
uniaue. specimens representing nomAh
r..saI characteristics and anomahes'
and crowned with plaster Ire czee
mich ne has made directly from many
interesting race types.
Or Hrdlicka had just returheo t1o."
an expedition 60 Mongolia ana 1Des
and this by no means readily oosA'nvu
.ccn,,nt of his travels and rese2Fo"ss
rot cnlv su9gests their scientinc va1ue.
hrt contains a wealth Of deughfdsAiy
cc,o,ed description OF a country p1@e
.tcal, unknown TO Americana, 20 even
Europeans o~.>-
Theosies ~ to Isaian's One
"opinions as to the origin Oh III
American natives have pseh
s..cutattye-have been fetsered on one
.;Se nv lack of direct Investigation:
- "A an the other by ancient tradiuons.
g., Dr. Hrdlicka After the ciseo
.ry nv Columbus. many of the ea'S
sr.niards concluded that as no men
,;cn VAS made OF the American apo'
..,nes I'm Hebrew traditions. thes
could not be strictly resarued as
eoual to those named In piciicsi
cct,nts This view led 10 wnpies
euslavement and destruction
,a,a, hull. whose effect was tnat
,rencefo-th the origin Of the inHiahs
~,as sought in other parts OF tn'
wor,h The seeming necessity OF mar
mon,.inx the indiana origin Win pip
Hal knowledge led to other curious
..,,,ons On. of these WAC that our
: o,ir,nen were descendants OF inc
Canaanites expelled by Joshua. HIu
another was that they were oescenu
ants from Asiatics. who had tnemssNes
d.scended frog. Magog. the second son
-, I.nhef while still another. whose
.n.n,. We continue to meet. was
chat tho American aboriXines repre-
..nsed the lost tribes of Israel. Dur
ir~ the nineteenth century We Gu
.o,,rter more rational theories FOR
n.amoIe. that the American natives
oririnated in the New World; that they
.Draue from early Christian Ethio-
mans. or even Egyptians setting IN
Yueaan: that they came from ens
lost Atlantis. or that they wee Io
nnrts Of different people who feacheo
America from the West, over other 1ost
lands that have since receded oeneAia
the sea. The philadelphia ethnologisd
Professor d. G. Brinton. held that they
c.ma In ancient times over such
Ia M connection with Europe. while
south American scientist has lately
exnounded tho theory that mankino III
general originated in South America
and the7ce migrated over ancient lenu
Connection TO Africa. pressing onward
reeent times, TO North America. across
the north of the Pacific Ocean 1ne
majority Of authors Of the last cen
fury. Including humboldt, inclined.
hovever. to the .,elief that all OF tho
american natives excepting the Eskimo]
were descendants Of immigrants from
Northeastern ..sia, particularly 1Fom
the Tartars or lfongolians-
Asia Gav0 . Ct1e.
.ror many years We have watched
rAnu-ts OF travellers from Eastern
Asia" continued tho doctor. "and time
I'd time again we found among their
chotcgraphs physiognomieS tnat
strongly resembled American tndlan
types. Some Of the most convincfns
Of these exist In Sven Hedin's Trans
Himalaya-'
II have always been anxious to oD-
serve these Asiatic types with my own
eyes and the opportunity came early
this year In connection with my pre-
parasion. of exhibits for the San Diego
lCal., Exposition, in 1918. which plans
70 display the most complete and orig
fnsi .anthropological archaeological and
ethuologfcal collections ever before
exhibited on q similar occasion.
Dr.. Hrdlicka took the Trans-Si5erian