The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-04-26
 WILL STUDY
 THE ESKIMO
Dr. Birket-Smith and Fred erica deLaguana in Alas
 ka Archaeological Trip

Bound for the Prince William Sound district where they hope to roll back the pages of time and dis close the history of the ancient Es- kimo, Dr. K. Birkst-Smith, of the Danish National Museum at Cop enhagen, Miss Frederick deLaguna, of the University of Pennsylvania Museum and their assistant Nor man Reynolds, University Of Wash ington Senior, are members Of an International Archaeological expe- dition who were in Juneau yester- day while the steamer Alaska was in port.
 It is the purpose of the group to excavate ancient Eskimo village sites and discover how the Eskimo lived before the arrival of white men and their consequent influence upon the northern natives mode of life. While much information re- garding the ancient Eskimo has been recorded by early travellers, it is the intention of the Birket- Smith group. by excavation of their villages to fit together a scientific history of the Eskimo
 Interesting Territory
 Southwestern Alaska is excep- tionally interesting territory to the scientist" Dr. Birket-Smith said yesterday. Tt is the southernmost region where the Eskimo is found, and it is here that the Thlingket Indians of the Southern Coast and the Athabaskans of the Interior meet"
 While the Eskimos of the south ern districts and the north have the same culture and similar lan- guage, there is still a great diff ference between them, according to Dr. Birket-Smith, and they are un- able to understand the dialects o. one another. Of interest is the fact that Eskimos of the north coast can understand the Greenlanders.
 Asked if they agreed with the theory that the Eskimo came to the North American continent from Asia. Dr. Birket-Smith and Miss deLaguna said that they hoped to have more to say about that upon their return next fall.
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 Miss deLaguna and Dr. Birket- Smith planned to make a scientific expedition to Alaska in 1930 At this time the Danish scientist was engaged in other work and Miss deLaguna's brother Wallace made the trip with her to assist in the preliminary work necessary in lo- eating Eskimo village sites where they planned to do their excavat- ing later. Miss deLaguna has re- turned to the Prince William Sound region each year since 1930
 Has Done Much Work
 Dr. Birket-Smith has done ex- tensiye archaeological work in Greenland and the West Hudson Bay district. While in Juneau he spent some time at the Territorial Museum with Father A. P. Kashe- yaroff to whom he had letter of introduction from Peter Freuchen who had travelled with him for two years with the Rasmussen ex- pedition which followed the trail of the Eskimo through Greenland, Alaska and Siberia. Birket-Smith and Freuchen left the expedition in Canada and devoted the rest of their studies to the West Hudson Bay district. His present. trip as head of this International expedi- ton is his first to Alaska. Freucher is known here as the author of ''The Eskimo" and passed through Juneau to and from Nome where he assisted in the direction of, and acted in. the film of his book being made by the Metro-G Goldwyn-May- CT company.
 Birket Smith and Miss DeLaguna expect to return through Juneau at the end of the summer.