Show Still Primitive Race 6 Customs Practiced by Strange People in Siberian Province Washington Far lur Far North radio operators operators oper report reception of ot station Aurora Aurora Au rora roro And according to the In nt ot province Siberia station ABs AB's program pro gram grain Is melodious even en It if the less Imaginative e might merely call It In I Is nn on Isolated d town of wooden huts buts native dugouts und and 2000 on the river about 11 miles east ast of ot the Ural mountains and about na os fur Louth of ot the A Arctic l' l circle as us the southern const coast of oC Iceland Ice Ice- land fund says u a bulletin from rant the Washington Wash ington headquarters of the N Notional National Geographic society the nearest sizable town and ond U the nearest station of the Tuns elan railway are ure about aboul 41 miles south of ot the village Land of or the While ninny many Russians Here Here- soy tor it ItIs Is In the land of the n taco race whose long tends heads thick lips round tU faces I protruding cheek check bones dark narrow eyes s 's smooth block black hair and yellow yellow gray gray skin are ore In sharp contrast to the features feature of ot their I 1 Buro- Buro uro neighbors Just across the Ural Unit range The are ure divided Into Inlo Final clans each cacti clan dUll usually representing a family faintly In n the winter they 1 In and near lIlor the v villages II Ies hut but summer summertime summertime time finds them In the fields In their tents tots of ot birch bark burk and dell deerskin IIII Few ew pf pt the clansmen cat can rend read or write and figures ore fire almost almust unknown u uto to them The notches on 1111 n a stick areto areto are ore oreto to the what the on un j a counting board are ure to a A fathom Cothom Is measured by the distance between tine finger linger tips of outstretched arms Time Is measured by lIy the In Interval tenal It takes for tor n a pot of ot a U certain size to boll Medicine men and pagan priests held beld sway over the before the luns conquered them Ihm Now many are ore Christians Russian orth orthodox odor and Moslems However lIol the clansmen still retain some of their old oll customs In lu ninny many of tune the huts hilts clan chin Images curved out of ot wood und wad gayl gayly painted are ure still to be peen NII Bleed II III Ing ng the sick Is to still a to tit v life cureall cure cure- r all and und some sOllie clans chins Insist 1 Hint hili their children smoke tobacco to rl I prevent nl sore lorf throats and lung limit Infections The bear has bus always all been hen twit hold sacred oy the When the they the kill kith one Olle th the clansmen e apologize to lu the hue carcass for fur e several Ne du days dus s. s Tit They e Insist the blume blame for tor taking Inking the bears bear's life l ii I. not Dot theirs but the Russians 1 who lio sot soli it them theta the guns To 10 swear Sl by tv th the Jawbone of n a bear bul Is as us us liS swearing on ou the III ide In a u country For or three years after otter the death of n clansman an image of ot the th deceased Is III dressed and undressed set lIet up 1111 to 10 the table mille and put tl to tt tM fwd bed bedas d I as liS If It n a living hiving thing Then It Is III burl burled buried 1 with the remains Once Well Organized Race Good wives Hives ure are lux luxuries urles and ond the clansmen often otten have more than thun one An ardent swain might payten pu rill ten fox tux pelts and n a herd of oC deer Corthe for Cor forthe forthe the girl Irl of ot his choice It If he Is not a 8 matrimonial diplomat he hires n a pro gubel between go-between wn to bargain with Ith the prospective brides bride's parents After Aftel the ceremony the bride settles down u downto to her tier Job of ot taking core care of the home twine and the reindeer herd two too It If her hr bus hus bared band Is fortunate enough to have e one une I In her spurn spare time rue rhe makes line tine embroidery em lIU on linen made finite o 0 lax flux und anti hemp which she raises Sime of the men lien are ure skilled In 10 wood und and bone curving carving seldom grow taller tiller than thuu ft 5 feet 4 Inches In the winter r till the numerous layers of ot deerskin clothing make them nearly as us broad bronti as us they are lire tall The reindeer Is not the chief elite source of clothing but hUI also the chief mean of or transportation And raw reindeer meat Is on uric one of tin tin-It principal funds Corn fora meal bulled boiled with l und and entrails of ot naked In to oil 1111 are ore delicacies Old forts In lu the region recall the days when hen the Ost u kb were Ire u w well eli organized race 1111 that teat fur fot many years ears staved d olT ulf Il stun In western Siberia Since were ell conquered the rae rue has lIus disintegrated grated und and through trade trude and aid Inter Intermarriage Intermarriage marriage wit l' the thu Ha their Inn Ian Is rapidly disappearing |