Show FIND PARADISE I FOR BACHELORS I Eskimo Males J Separated I From Women Five j I jI Months i Each Year 9 WASHINGTON Oct 12 n. By The Associated s Press on Press On the barren Island of off ort the coast of Alaska where only Eskimo E souls spread their habitations over o 2800 I- I 7 square miles of semi-arctic semi wastes scientists have discovered a 1 bachelors paradise at least for tor five months of the year car During the period so they found I the entire male population of the Iso iso- Isolated isolated Island from the weaned In Infants In- In Infants infants to the oldest patriarch are separated from the women for lor the singular reason given by the inhabitants inhabitants inhabitants tants themselves es that It Insures a good catch of seals on which they are largely dependant for food cloth cloth- clothing Inc ing and light These facts together with other data have been brought back to Washington and made public today by Henry B. B Collins Jr Smithsonian ethnologist and Dale Stewart of ot the National rational museum who undertook an expedition to Alaska in operation co-operation with rills the American Association for the Advancement Ad of Science and the American Council of Learned So So- Societies The only break In the tho barriers of womans woman's land Is at meal time when the women carry 1 food to to the a semi ean can ceremonial lodge lod e where the men live lire during their traditional exile A feast at which the bladders of all seals caught during the year ear are arc thrown back Into the sea to propitiate the seal tribe concludes the male iso isolation Iso Iso- isolation I lation lallon the scientists say adding that numberless taboos as to hunting skin skin- skinning skinning skinning ning and general handling illustrate the high regard the eskimos have for their watery prey pre Because B cause of their Isolation It was said the represent the most conservative Eskimo tribes left in the world The bureau of education main main- maintains maintains maintains a teacher and his Ills wife wICe on the Island and the only other representative tive of the outside world known to the inhabitants is a trader at another village 30 miles away NO o BOAT IN I TWO YEARS RS Prior to the arrival of the Smith Smith- Smithsonian Smithsonian expedition the had hadnot hadnot hadnot not been visited by a boat in two taro years ears Mr Collins Is of the opinion that ak has been inhabited for only a II afew afew few hundred years ears no burials or other evi evi- evidences evidences evidences dences of ancient man were ere found the expedition reported obtaining the first skeleton material and logical measurements ever to come out of the island So little is known about the Island that its shores have not even een been charted |