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Show Ancient Bone Armor Found in Alaska WASHINGTON. Bone armor worn in American battles bat-tles a thousand years ago, when E-arope's fighters went clad in mail, is among the trophies of an archeological expedition recently re-cently returned from Alaska. Mounds of prehistoric rubbish yielded the slats of bone armor, and the arrow heads, fish lines, harpoons, har-poons, combs, needles, children's toys, and bits of clothing of Eskimos who lived at Cape Prince of Wales, the most westerly point on the North American continent. The expedition, led by Henry B. Collins, Jr., was a joint venture of the Smithsonian Institution In-stitution and the National Geographic Geo-graphic society. The makers of the ancient objects are identified as Eskimos of the Thule stage of Eskimo prehistory, by Mr. Collins. While this type of culture has been known, especially in Greenland and central Canada, Mr. Collins' latest expedition confirms con-firms the theory that this ancient culture spread eastward from Alaska. The digging also probed into an earlier stage of Eskimo culture. |