Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-28
BACK FROM SIBERIA'S
LONG HIDDEN DEPTHS
WITH ODD TROPHIES
III. U. Hull Brings to the Univer-
sity Museum Many Curiosi-
ties and News of Pc
culiar People
WOMAN SHARED PERILS

Fl. L. Hall. who represented the Uni
versity Museum in an expedition into
hitherto uneXplOred portions of Siberia,
arrived in Philadelphia today with sew
eral cases of carvings from reindeer bone.
TOOLS. Shamanistic religious aCcessories
Implements used in a domestic sense, ma
tive costumes of several primitive tribes
and perhaps most important of all two re-
liglous drums used in religious ceremon-
les. These drums are vrey rare, and it is
said that no museum in the United States
aside from the University Museum. viii
possess examples. The specimens are in
bond and will be opened as soon as pos
sible and placed upon exhibition.
The expedition was organized by Miss
Czaplicka, of London. young and in
trepid Polish woman explorer i'm the in
terests OF the oxford Committee on An
thropology. Upon hearing Of its organ-
zation early in 1914, Mr., Hall made ap-
plication to join in the interests Of the
University Museum, Permission being
granted. Mr.. Hall and Miss Czapicka
left London in February 1914, and
reached TurnkahousIl. on the lower course
OF the Yenise River. when they ascended
by steamboat to Krasnovansk, distance
of 1900 miles north where they spent the
summer.
In the early autumn Of 1871, after the
SHOW Iltue lIdNel pfdClltdDle bN IeluQeeT
sled over the marshy and rocky territory
they went northeast across the Arctic
country TO the lake country, a hitherto
unknown section with a vast chain of
lakes whose waters run into the Nha-
tanga River, The distance by sleds COW
cred in this expedition was about 1000
miles. During the journey they eucouu-
tered. for the first time, as far as il is
known. many strange tribes of peaceful
people, among them the fungus, the Yu-
rak, the Samoyed and the DOigan
To all Of these tribes Miss Czapicka
was their first vision of a white woman.
and In nearly every case Mr.. Hall was
the first white man they had ever seen,
no other Caucasian ever haying penetrated
this portion Of Siberia save an occasional
Russian Orthodox missionary. These
tribes are in physique short. stocky and
swarthy. with eoal-black. straight hair.
10 the superficial observer they might be
compared to EsquimauN, but in Mr.. Hairs
opinion. they are vastly different in APP
pearanee.
Their religion in veneer OF Russian
Orthodox Christianity. covering ShamaH-
ism, the primitive religion Of the Ural-
Altaic peoples Of northern Asia, which is
based upon the dogma that the unseen
world of gods, demons and ancestral
spirits who can be appealed to only through
Shamans, or mediumstic priests whose
methods are not unlike those Of the medi-
cine man Of the American Indian.
The explorers Travelled from eight 90
eleven hours daily stopping al night iu
native tents with members Of the varied
tribes they met and studied They exper-
ienced temperature as low as 80 below
aero, ard found 80 and 40 below the aver
age. Despite these conditions. neither
Hiss czaplieka nor Mr. Hall suffered any
inaDnvenienee beyond frostbites TO the
nnsers and hands
Sir Han found an the tribes loyal to
lita Czar. To an Of them be was the first
MAJ
fae Fatlng and position of the natives
s. AZ these strange tribes is based upon
Ia|ndeef ownership Every man owns
1ae ~ tive some from ten 70 q dozen
Iaa wealthy several hundred and the mii-
aAalle several thousands