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Show Eskimos "Mine" Ivory Left by Ance$tor " Ancient fossil Ivory valued at $00,000 came South on the first boat from No. e this season. The tvory on board represented an unintentional unin-tentional bequest from the long deceased de-ceased Eskimos to the present generation. gen-eration. The natives from time immemorial im-memorial feasted on walrus and the tusks, having no value, were tossed aside. These piles accumulated, especially on the St Lawrence and the Prlbllof Islands, during the centuries. Thei, white men came north with trading schooners and bought freshly killed walrus Ivory. The Eskimos, remembering the wasteful habits it their ancestors, promptly began sinking sink-ing r!nrr on the sites of ancient camps. Each summer they dig out thousands of dollar worth of fossil Ivory, valuable because of Its deep coloring and extreme hardness. |