The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-09-14
BROWN BEAR IN FROM SUM MFR
 IN ALEUTIAhS
Much of Interest Uncover ed by Biological Survey
 Party on Expedition
Continued from rase One)

.lA3tied out with sach force that 1t is impossible to hold heavy object against it's pressure, the party re ported. In the caves they found several mummies, many of them in perfect condition, revealing that the early Aleuts, long before the arriy- al of the Russians, were conversant with embalming. The mummies were doubled up and in seal skin sacks. Some of them were turned over to Dr. Ales Hrdlicka Of the Smithsonian Institute, who was on a scientific trip to Alaska this sum- mer, and he declared the discovery one of the most valuable contribu- tions which had been made to science in Alaska this year. He de- clared it one of the high s.ots of his trip to the north this summer. Af- ter the Brown Bear party had gone on the Hrdlicka party visited the caves later in the season and found much of great value in their re- search worisz
 At Nelson Island
 At Nelson Island the Nitric party found four villages of 300 natives with two teachers and one Catholic missionary In this low, rolling tundra country fuel is at a prem ium and drift wood is used exclus- ively. Last winter several families were out of fire for at least five weeks and huddled together in their Barabaras, or sod and dirt built houses, and lived on cold fish. to keep alive This year the beaches are covered with wood and one can see stacks of drift which has been piled up by the natives for their winter use, the party reported.
 Nelson Island is a meeting area for Black Brant, one of the few this side of the Arctic coast, and also it is a great gooose nesting country. The natives have their own language, consisting almost en- tirely of constanants with but rare ly vowel, and live almost exclus- ively in the mud and sod houses. A few wood houses have been built in the last four years.
 At Nuniuak
 At Nunivak Island. where 150 na- tives reside, the party saw the 31 muskoX which were transferred from Fairbanks and reported them doing fine. There is considerable crossing of caribou and reindeer at Nuni- yak, Warden Jewell reported. The people there have a peculiar mode of living, the men living in their own quarters and the women apart. In the later years family life is be- coming established to a degree and there are some instances now where families live together. but the old custom is still prevalent The na- tive inhabitants hunt and fish with spears as of old and are good bas- ket makers and ivory workers. There too, the only fuel is drift wood.
 Tn the bird life field, in which Dr, Nitric was making g special study, he found proof that the European teal. which resembles the teal duck found in this country, nests in the Aleutians. Also the common var iety of mallard makes it a nesting ground as do redheads and blue bills. Scarcity was noticed at the nesting grounds and Dr. Nitric at tributed this in a large degree to the universal scarcity of game birds Throughout he world. He found evidence of the Emperor goose of the Arctic coming as far south asI the Aleutians and four varieties of Elder ducks make it their breed- lng grounds. One of the reasons for