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Show Eskimos "M ine" Ivory , Left by Ancestors Ancient ' fossil ivory valued at $50,000 came South on the first boat from No: e this season. The ivory 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 Pribilof islands, during the centuries. Theii white men came north with trading schooners and bought freshly killed walrus Ivory. The Eskimos, remembering the wasteful habits of their ancestors, promptly began sinking sink-ing minrr on the' sites of ancient camps.1 Each summer they dig out thousands of dollars' worth .of fossil ivory, valuable, because of its deep coloring and extreme hardness. |