The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-08
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Alaska has ever been looked upon as a land of romance, where for tunes in placer gold could be found in the creek beds. and a mans life
 hung by hair" says the Seattle Times. But with the discovery Of Alaskan mummics, it has taken it's place beside Egypt as a land of inter- est to the ethnologlst. An Alaskan mummy is as dry and brown as any which have been swathed in the lin .uen Of Egypt
 The museum of the University of Washington in Seattle contains a mummy that was evidently one Of the three once on display in a sa- loon at Euamay, new mining town OR Prince William Sound. Curator F. $. Hall. of the museum, doesn't know how it happened to get into the university museum, but he thinks tt is one of the Ell2mar mummies which lured Professor Edmond s. Meauy to the Aleutian Islands a few summers ago.
 Discovery Made in f574
 The first discovery of the Alaskan mummies was made by the Alaska Commercial Company in 1871, on Kagamu Island, Thirteen mummies were removed from one burial place, eleven of which were sent to the Smithsonian Institution and two to the California Academy of Science. Since that time the three on display lat the ElIamar Saloon a,e all that have been found.
 When the ancient Aleut prepared his deceased relatives for burial the body was doubled up so that the ,rin rested between the knees and he arms were locked about the legs. The body was wrapped in furs, grass 10th or other material, according Q the wealth or the family and was aid away in g burial box, or placed n dry cave. Rocks then were tackled against the body and a board covered the mount. The Rag mil mummics were evidently pre- pared to be swung from the walls pr roofs of caves, but-those examined by Professor Meany on Prince Will igm Sound, bore no such evidence
 No salt. or other prescryatiye, was used in preparing the body for burial. according to Professor Me2ny, Jn Prince William Sound, the bur al caves are simply overhanging .iiffs, quite open to the effects oi .ha air. Professor Meauy believes that the mummies are accidental having dried in the pure air of that nigh altitude.
 Used In Stone Age
 This method of burial was used in the Stone Age of the Alcuts, as no sign of metal was found in any of the graves The boards which covered the graves are apparently made of spruce, one side of which was clcaved and the other showing rough marks of the stone aiz. These facts. together with the absence Of beads or other signs of white men, leads Professor Meany 10 believe .hat these mummics were buried by the Aleuts before they he'd been wis tied by white men.
 According to tho sayings Of the older Alcuts, about l72O or 17&O, shortly before the Russian visitation, so they must have lain undisurbed for from IA to 154 years. The col lection in the university museum, aside from the mummy includes a grave board, a dugout canoe some twelve feet long. scattering col lection of beads and ornaments and few skulls.
 Professor Mcany visited another grave on the southwest side of Glac. fer Island, fronting on Columbia glacier, The body found here had become a skeleton, but it had been doubled up and prepared similarly to the others. Around the forehead was strip of buckskin, from which dangled few strands of Hudson Bay beads of black, blue and white glass, This, according to Professor Meany,