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Last week the 29th International Congress of Americanists, meeting in New York's American Museum of Natural History, was confronted by a striking exhibit of New World cultural elements which look as if they came from Asia. Assembled by Dr. Gordon F. Ekholm of the Museum's staff, they were intended as a challenge to the convening Americanists. Said he: "I just wanted to see if they could explain the stuff...
...natives used two kinds of fishhook: a barbed, composite gadget made of shell and stone lashed together and a nearly circular barbless hook carved out of bone or shell in one piece. Almost identical hooks of both types have been found together on the northern coast of Chile. Dr. Ekholm believes that patterns so characteristic and so similar could not have been developed independently...