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Show Island too Cold For the Eskimos Canadian Arctic Spot Is Merely Crossroads WASHINGTON It's even too cold for Eskimos on Cornwallis Island. This desolate spot in the Canadian Cana-dian arctic was for centuries no more than a crossroads for Eskimos migrating to and from Greenland and Alaska. The climate that moved the Eskimos Es-kimos also preserved remnants of their civilization, however. Excavations Exca-vations . this summer produced a wealth of information about prehistoric pre-historic life in the northern climes. Three village sites were found that dated from the "Thule" Eskimos, Es-kimos, a prehistoric tribe which originated in Alaska and wandered through the arctic islands. With the excavations came some of the richest rich-est Thule deposits yet uncovered-fragments uncovered-fragments of clothing, weapons, and food deposits. The survey, a joint project of the Smithsonian Institution and the National Museum of Canada, has reconstructed a comprehensive picture pic-ture of the Thule culture from these remains. Apparently a Thule would have been lost without the whale. With whale-bone he built his house and made his weapons. He ate the whale that his weapons killed. He also used stone and turf in constructing settlements. Antlers and ivory occasionally were weapon weap-on material. In one Thule house the expedition expedi-tion found an amulet, or Eskimo rabbit foot, made of small leather pouches strung on a tlrcular skin thong. v |