The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-21
EXPLORE KANSAS
Harvard ArchaeOlOgists to
Study Ancient Races.
Party Will Spend Three Months
in This State.

Omaha, Neb., July 21.-kansas is to
be invaded this year by the archaic
illogical expedition of Harvard univer-
sity. The scientists have just out
fitted in Omaha and have started
working their way down the Missouri
river, with the intention of spending
several months in the Missouri river
valley south of the Observation-Disclosures
state line, and along the Kaw and
Blue rivers in Kansas. Their program
is to work along the Missouri to Kan
sas City, thence up the Kaw to Man
haitian and up through the valley OF
the Blue into Nebraska. NehaWka,
Neb., will be the first stop and after a
few days exploration in that vicinity
the expedition will remove to White
Cloud, Kan. where the real work Will
begin. Four months will be consumed
in the entire trip, and about three
fourths of this time will be spent
within the boundaries of the state of
Kansas.
DIR. Storms Heads the Party.
AT the head of the expedition is DR..
Frederick H. Storms, associate in an
thropolOgy. Peabody Museum of Har-
ward. Doctor Stems has spent three
summers in Nebraska in archaeology
ical exploration work between Calhoun
and Nehawka. He has met with Won
derful success, and has sent many
crates of prehistoric implements and
human remains back to Harvard. This
will be Doctor Sterns' last year in the
Missouri valley as in all probability
he will be a member of the Peabody
Museums proposed African expedition
next year-one of the best equipped
anthrOpOloglcal explorations ever un-
dertaken by the Peabody Museum.
Another member of the expedition
into Kansas is Doctor Taylor, of West
Chester. Pa, who assumes the chair
,T,,1r ,1r-.,,
St. Louis. next fall. The third mem
Der is A. Carpenter of Boston, a noted
scientific photographer and anthrOpOl-
Ogist, who was member of Peabody
Museums Central American eXpedi-
ton last winter under Doctor Mer-
win. Mr.. Carpenter will act as the
official photographer of the eXpedi
ton. c. E. Guthe, of Ann ArbOr.
Mich. will be the fourth member of
the expedition. Mr. Guthe has just
been graduated from Harvard. Mr..
Clarence Storms. former member of
the Peabody field staff, will complete
the staff of the invaders.
Compare Previous Results.
1t is not the intention of Doctor
Storms and his associates to search out
new cultures. but rather to make thor
Ough comparative examinations of and
analyses of discoveries already made.
Prehistoric villages of the Kansas. |
Wichita and Pawnee Indians, which
have already been located and, in
some cases at least, explored, will be
very carefully studied with a view of
determining the possible relationship
of those Indians to the eastern Ne
braska prehistoric people who lived |
in Semi-Subterranean houses of rec
tangular shape along the Missouri
river bluffs. Having devoted three i
summers to the study of the ancient |
people of Nebraska Mr.. Storms is |
considered as being peculiarly fitted |
to do the comparative work in this |
instance. Down to the present scien- |
fists have found absolutely no rela- |
tionship between the early Nebraskans |
or dead.