The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-15
Capt. Joe Bernard of the Teddy Bear Projects
 Big Trip
BUT MIGHT WINTER THERE
Wooden Leg Made by Eskimos Among Latest
 Collection Relics

A NOme to NoWfOundland tr1p through the Arctic will be made this year if his plans go through, accord ing to Captain Joe Bernard of the Teddy Bear, who is in New York to arrange for the exhibition of relics of Sir John Franklin's ill-fated Arctic expedition and archaeological material from prehistoric Eskimo graves in Victoria Land and in North Siberia, according to the New York Times. John B. Burnham, President of the American Game Protective Associa- tion, is assisting in the effort to or ganize west-to-east expedition through the Arctic.
 One of the relics of Sir John Frank ln's expedition consists of parts of a copper boom from one of his ships which was found in possession of an Eskimo on Adelaide Peninsula, which is at a point about three-quarters of the journey from Boring Straits, on the Pacific side, to Baffin Bay, on the Atlantic. Another relic is a wooden wood from a ship in a relic expedi- tion sent after Franklin, who perished in 1S48. Another strange relic of early British expeditions reported by Captain Bernard was a bit of applied science. It was a wooden leg manu- factured roughly for himself by an eskimo on Adelaide Peninsula, his an cestors having learned the trick from members of the expedition of Sir James c. Ross, who explored in the Arctic in 1928.
 A Veteran Arctic Trader
 Captain Bernard has been trading and making archaeological and anthro- biological collections among the Els kimos for twenty seasons. He is said to have covered more mileage in the Arctic than any man living. His great est collection, numbering 5000 pieces, is in the museum of the University of Pennsylvania. Other collections made by him are in the city at the Museum of American Indian, Heye Foundation; at the Loyola College at Ottawa, and elsewhere Edward Arnold of Mon treal has large private collection containing many Arctic treasures bar tered from natives or excavated by Captain Bernard, who is by a wide margin the greatest individual hunt CT of material of this kind in the North.
 His most interesting recent cOllec- tion contains weapons and utensils from ancient graves on Victoria Land in the Arctic. These are believed to prove that the early Victoria Land h. dians belonged to the Chuckchee tribe of Siberia, who also bury their dead in stone-lined graves with heads pointing east
 Captain Bernard hopes to make up a party of three or four sportsmen
 
 proposed e-to-Newfoundland trip. The west-to-east passage of the Arc tic has never been accomplished. In the other direction the passage has been made by one man-Amundsen The water route through the Arctic north of Canada was discovered by Sir John Franklin, but he perished on the trip.
 Two Alternating Trips
 The Arctic pilot said that he was ready to attempt the trip in either one or two ways-a quick dash with the purpose of completing the trip in one summer, or more leisurely journey, wintering on Victoria Land or some other part of the Arctic, hunting polar bear while the light lasts, taking mo- tion pictures and listening to music, news and bedtime stores from WIZ.
 eff conditions are favorable, it would be possible to leave Nome on July 15 to reach Newfoundland in the latter part of September or early in October" he said. "If we started in- tending to make the trip in one sum- mer, I think we would have about an even chance of getting through. If ice conditions were bad, as they were last summer, it would be necessary to po into wintar nuartora
 "I would take one native on the trip, and the passengers could not number more than three or four. They would have to act as the crew and do their share of the work"
 The party would have to live large ly on the country. Their diet would vary, according to the position where