The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-11

Junior. chartered from Captain
George Haggerty. Prof. Frank c.
Hibben OF the University of New
Mexico. distinguished young an
thropologist, set out three months
ago for Alaskan waters on a quest
for the remains OF man believed
to have hunted the mastodon on
the North American continent in
the Pleistocene age, $4,000 years
before Christ.
The Junior returned TO Tacoma
Thursday with news that the ex-
petition had been a success. While
anchored in Chinitna bay, at the
lower end of Cooks Inlet on the
Alaskan peninsula. Prof. Hibben
made discoveries which supported
the theory that sent him on his
search. He has already made one
of the most important contribu-
tons to American anthropology
through the discovery of evidences
of the "Sandia man" in caves near
Albuquerque.
stopped Mt Fairbanks
With him on the trip were his
wife and two young daughters,
Norrie, Il. and Peggie. II. They
left the boat at Fairbanks. plan
ming to travel to Seward and into
the interior by train to continue
their work for another month.
Their craft, a trim little 72-foot
Seattle built vessel returned to
Tacoma in time to pick up a party
Of 10 mining engineers who are
leaving Saturday morning on a
three-week trip to Juneau to look
over some mining property. Be-
sides the Hibben family on the
cruise, We're Captain Haggerty,
Frank L. Potter, engineer, and
Mrs. Anna Archer, stewardess.
During their cruise the party
visited the Valley of Ten Thous-
and Smokes, and anchored in the
shadows of volcanoes Hanna. Kat
mai and Augustine. Most of thar
work was done in deserted Indian
villages, taking them into innu-
merable bays, inlets and river
mouths on the coast, and as far as
the Boring strait. They saw all
the large glaciers. and found
their way among icebergs where
larger craft could never venture.
They returned laden with movies
OF abundant wild life of the
region, including school of fur
seal. Another Of their trophies was
totem pole, which they towed
for some five hundred miles.
About $4,000 b. &.
Before embarking on the trip.
Hioben, graduate Of Princeton
with a doctor of philosophy de-
gree from Harvard. explained the
purpose Of his quest.
Several years ago in New Mexico
caves there were discovered the
earliest remains Of man To be
found on this continent. They
called HIM the Folsom man. and
estimated that he lived about
10000 B. c, hunting animals now
extinct, but whose bones remain
among the primitive implements
with which this early human
hunted them. They did not md
the bones Of the Folsom man him
SELF.
HIbben made his first discovery
about two years Aso in L cave
near Albuquerque Beneath LAYERS
Of soil containing the yestises OF
the Folsom man. he found even
earlier implements, left there bv
human being estimated 10 have
lived 10000 years before. This vas
called the Ssndis man. Both the
Folsom man and the Sandis man
are mere moderns compared 10
the Nesnderthsl man found in
Germany, but absolutely no re-
mains have been found Of either
OF them.
Theory Substantiated
Hibben set out 10 find evidences
Of the Paleoithic Indians, the men
who crossed the Bering strait from
Siberia 10 Alaska, the first hui
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