The sun., 1919-08-03
Marie Czlapick a
Encounters Tribe:
Resembling Stef-.
ansson's Blond
Eskimo and Other
Strange People in.
Unknown Regions
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ing. Author and stssyeiisr shs,. was in.
1sls-lsi7 appointed Mary Hwsst Leo.
turer In Ethnoiogy = 10 the oxford
School Of Anthropoiosy. She was born
near Warsaw in Poland, educated In
Poland ana Russia and went to Eng
land in 1910 with the Miniawski Re-
search Scholarship Cwarsaw), studied
in London and Oxford Bonneville
College) and took a diploma in an
thropology in 1912. Under the auspices
Of this Oxford school she made an
anthropological expedition In 1915
1915 to the Yenisei valley in Siberia
She IL expected to lecture this fall at
Columbia University.
Such In brief and colorless words,
shortened from the British who's
Who" Is the distinction OF this still
young woman, In truth, her life with
all Its honorary titles attached IL far
more romantic and in spots even
thrilling. Some of these thrills came
to her when she made the trip re-
toTEcu W 10 5lpeTlb-
The expedition came about when
Miss Czlapicka decided to write q look
ON the subject Of Aboriginal sibsria,"
ana IN consulting the data concerning
the almost unknown races Of the ST.
berian Arctic In the vast library Of
oxford University she found to her
dismay that these records were very
scant. A few books only existed writ
ten by Russians and Poles who had
penetrated merely to the border lands
oxford Organizes Expedition.
That there were vast periods of his
toric time to cover and real discoveries
valuable to the subject of anthfopol-
ogy to be made in this unknown terri
tory the woman lecturer felt certain,
but there was only one way to secure
the desired information and that was
to go and get It.. This Miss Czlapicka
did. The Oxford University Commit
tee for Anthropology lent her it's sup
port and organized, the expe alton
placing Miss Czlapickar at its head.
They invited the University of Penn
sylyania Museum to join and that in
stitution appointed Professor II. U.
Hall to represent American science in
the party, He Joined the expedition
In London.
The party 1ourneyed to, Petrograd
and Moscow and thence to Krasnov-
arsk, considerable city OF central ST.
IBERIA, 2,700 miles east of Moscow
Here were purchased articles nscss-
sary to complete the outftting of the
party. A Siberian trader named Chris
Jensen who had voyaged through the
wilderness which the party" Wduls
traverse In the beginning or 'their
= Journey gave them valuabfe' knvwl-
edge Of the country and many hints
as to what was essential to take along
1t was agreed to locate the head
quarters Of the expedition at a point
on the Yenisei River. on the parallel
of II deg. 43 min. N, the same on which
is situated Herschel Island, from and
to which 6tefansson has gone and re-
turned when on his Arctic wander
ings In this region during May, June
and July. for eighty days. the sun re.
fuses to retreat behind the horizon
and in winter the temperature falls
so deg. +. below zero.
At this point a small sullen stream
called the Golchikha joins the Yenise
on Its journey to the Arctic, and there
live In solitary seclusion two Russian
traders. visited only in the summer By
people Of the Dolgan. Yurak .ant
Samoyed tribes, who come to flsh.
steaming at Three Miles an Hour
The expedition at Krasnoyarsl
chartered the ancient Clyde built side
wheeled midget craft Oryol, tina
was brought to the Yenisei River viz
the Kara Sea thirty years ago by ar
old viking named Virgins, who aftei
two and a half centuries reopened tn,
northern trade route to the Siberian
northlands. ."-t ..
The water voyage of. 1900 miles
almost directly north. consumed thre,
weeks, an average of about three mile
an hour. giving ample time for visit
ing the native fisher settlements alonI
the shore Of the Yenisei- Ostyak, tn,
most ancient Of tho peoples Of tn,
lower Yenisei Valley. All the races II
this part OF Siberia are Of Samoyedi'
or Ural-Altaic stock and may be d
f, vided into main groups. Those in