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Show "Original Eskimos" Found The ancestral type of the Eskimo race still lives in southwestern Alaska. About 3,000 of these "original "orig-inal Eskimos" make their homes in scattered villages in the watershed of the Kuskokwim river from Kus-kokwim Kus-kokwim bay to the foothills of Mount McKinley. Their existence was announced an-nounced by Dr. Alex Hrdlicka, of the Smithsonian institution, upon his return from a summer's work in Alaska. Terming his discovery "like finding the head of the skeleton of prehistoric Alaska," the famous anthropologist believes these people to be the living representatives of the ancestors of one of the two major groups of the aboriginal North Americans Amer-icans who came from Asia by way of j Bering strait. i |