| Summary: | 2nd Smithsonian Expedition Sails For Alaska To Study Eskimo Origin. 2nd Smithsonian Expedition Sails For Alaska to Study Eskimo Origin Seattle, June 3.—(/P)—Second of the Smithsonian institution's fifth annual expeditions seeking to solve the puzzle of North American Indians' and Eskimos' origin, sailed for Alaska today. The party, headed by Henry B. Collins, anthropologist anad archaeologist, included James A. Ford, Louisiana State college research associate and Harrison Prindl, Duke university graduate. They sailed aboard the liner Yukon, which is posted to sail through Unimak pass into Bering sea at midnight June 8. Insurance underwriters prohibit cargo ships entering the sea, iceblocked all winter, before that date. Collins, who has spent four summers delving into traces of pre-Christian era cultures on the shore of Bering sea, will take his party back tip of the North American mainland, more than 100 miles northwest of Nome and only 50 miles from the Siberian headland, East Cape. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, also of tha Smithsonian institution, left here last month with a party of student aides for a fifth summer's explorations into a buried village ruins on Kodiak island, 350 miles south of Cape Prince of Wales. Halfway between them, Hans Otto Geist, University of Alaska anthropologist, is expected to head another department of interior University of Alaska expedition digging for additional evidences of Asiatic migrations on St. Lawrence's island. Collins recently received a 1,000 kroner prize from the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences for his discoveries indicating Eskimos are of Asiatic origin. But he said the proof is too vague for scientific adoption.
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