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Show Eskimos "Mine" Ivory Left by Ancestors Ancient fossil Ivory valued at $.10,000 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 plies accumulated, especially on the St Lawrence and the Prlbilof Islands, during the centuries. Theii white men came north with trading schooners and bought freshly killed walrus Ivory. The Eskimos, remembering the wasteful habits ot their ancestors, promptly began sinking sink-ing mines on the sites of ancient camps. Each summer they dig out thousands of dollars' worth of fossil Ivory, valuable because of Its deep coloring and extreme hardness. |