Northwest History. Alaska. Explorers, Exploration & Discoveries.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1932
• Subjects: ancient workmen; Washington; Kodiak isalnd; Alaska; Dr. Ales Hrdlicka; anthropologist; Smithsonian institution; Indian's ancestors; the aborigines; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Pacific; Kodiak
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/91119

Ancient Workmen Had Him Bluffed. ANCIENT WORKMEN HAD HIM BLUFFED WASHINGTON, Sept. 29. (/P)—A couple of experiments conducted on Kodiak island, in Alaska, this summer. have given Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, anthropologist of the Smithsonian institution, new respect for the ingenuity and craftsmanship of some of America's earliest settlers. Digging into refuse rich with records of the Indian's ancestors, Dr. Hrdlicka found several primitive stone lamps, fashioned centuries ago from: granite. He decided he would shape one, using the primitive stone tools employed by the aborigines. "I pecked and ground," Dr. Hrdlicka said today, "but I made little progress. After more pecking and grinding, I came to the conclusion it would take; entirely too long and entirely too much work to fashion a lamp. And I was not certain, any more, that I could do as well as the artisans of a bygone age."