Bisbee daily review., 1914-04-11
WOMAN EXPLORER IN WORLD WIDE QUEST OF YANKEE PEDIGREE
HARRIET CHALMERS ADAMS, WHO STUDIED TRIBES IN ARIZONA,
 RETURNS FROM ASIA TOUR


 WASHINGTON, D. C.. April fO-' Harriet Chalmers Adams, one of America's foremost women explorers who has just returned from journey along the fringe of Asia, where she has been studying the peoples from Siberia l.o Sumatra in an attempt to trace the original American. in com. munication to the National Geographic Society. at Washington, D. C., ex- presses the belief that the ancient "Americ" peoples came by sea. pos- sibly in broken stages from Asia.
 This earlier immigration. however. was at very remd.e period, for our prehistoric monuments point to an in- digenous culture" says Mrs Adams "A branch of an old World race these early Americans evolved so their highest civilization on New World soil" She expresses confidence that closer study of the Indo Chin ese branch of the Yellow Race. the Malay. Chinese and Tibd.an, as com pared to our prehistoric civilization. will throw new light or the problem of tracing the orginlal American.
 For years Mrs. Adams has been studying the ancient civilization of the New World. those which we call "Americ." She has travelled all over the Western Hemisphere from Canada To Tierra del Fuego, through every state in the United States and Mex ! leo and every country of Central and South America. She outlines the an- cient Americ civilization as follows: Prelncasic People (before the In- cas). who builded Tiahuanaco, now in ruins near the Bolivian shore of Lake Titicaca This. as far as we know, is the "oldes. city of the New World The people living there today are Aymaras. Indians Of tho Bolivian high lands, who were subiugated by the lncas of Peru.
 Incas. of Peru. who rose long afier Tiahuanaco fell These were the Qui- chua people whose capital was Cuzco. Sacred City of the Sun, They were conquered by Pizarro and his follow ers.' Their descendants still speak the | Quichua tongue and retain many an. cient customs. They live in the An dean highlands Of Peru. Mrs Adams thinks them the most interesting Americans alive tCsay. Ruins of their temples and fortresses are strewn throughout the Andean country and even on the Eaa-ern slopes of the An deas in the junglt, she says
 Mayas, of Central America. whose ruins still exist.
 Toltecs and Aztecs, of Mexico wtose blood flows in the Mexican of today.
 Pueblos, of the United States. who live principally in Arizona and New Mexico today. The Zuni. Hopi and many other tribes are included in the Pueblos. each speaking f.s own tongue. These Indians represent the tr.hes living in permanent stone or adobe houses or settlements. when the white man came, as apart from the nomadlc hunting tribes. In ancient days the Pueblos extended from Colo rado into Mexico and from Arizona 10 Texas.
 While scientists agree that America was peopled by way of the Northwest, Mrs. Adams does not believe that all early Americans came this way. in the Philippines, Ms Adams saw lfuga- os warriors who resemble Aymara chiefs of the Andean highlands in spite of the difference in climate.
 This is not strange when we class the lfugaos as Maylays of the Indo Chinese branch of the Yellow Race and believe that ancient America was peopled from Asia" she says Not only among certain Malay mountain tribes. but also in Western China was 1 l constar ly reminded of things Americ, but never among people of a low grade of civilization, only when among people of ancient lineage. in olden days, great war canoes were padded by many oarsmen from one South Sea island to another. It seems likely that in this fashion men set sail from the Malay Peninsula. with their wives and children. food. house. sols goods and domea.ic animals aboard, and, aided by wind and tide, reached the Promised Land. some palm-frlnged isle in the tropic sea-" Mrs. Adams has the records of 25 small boats that apparently were blown across the Pacific, one Jap. anese fishing boat which landed it's unwilling immigrants alive and well on Californian soil two years ago.