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...simple Eskimo, best known for igloos and blubber-eating, may have been a bearer of culture to the New World. The Eskimos, says Curator Helge Larsen of Denmark's National Museum, once had a highly developed art, religion and social system. Perhaps they passed on a little of their culture before they lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers, Oct. 18, 1948 | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...Larsen was at New York's American Museum of Natural History, gloating over the take of an airborne summer "dig." He had been in Alaska trying to determine the extent of the Ipiutak (ancient Eskimo) culture that flourished there 2,000 years ago. The forgotten culture, apparently, had more connection with Asia than with North America. Its elaborate tools and art objects look Siberian or Chinese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers, Oct. 18, 1948 | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

Last summer, with Dr. James L. Giddings of the University of Alaska, Dr. Larsen chartered an airplane and explored the desolate shore of the Bering Sea north of Bristol Bay. There he found more than 50 characteristic Ipiutak sites: shallow depressions where the earth-covered wooden dugouts had collapsed into the ground. The ruins were certainly made by the Ipiutaks-Eskimos fresh from Asia and still retaining many Asiatic ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers, Oct. 18, 1948 | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...Thorndike and Bob Forsyth can shut out Scot Johnson for second and third in the hammer. If Lockett, Lawrence, and Torrey can outvault the equally-good trio of Eustis, Bensley, and Larsen. If high-jumpers Gene Harrigan and Mary Jenkins can stay up there with Jim Keyes. If Sam Felton can split Frank and Bowers in the discus. If Thayer, Kumple, and Carter can beat Yale's brilliant but erratic broad-jumper Nathan Bundy (he hit 23 feet, 6 inches last week against Princeton). If sore-armed Don Trimble can take at least one javelin throw to prevent the Elis...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: Bulldog Track Squad Favored Over Varsity | 5/7/1948 | See Source »

Candidates from the Class of 1950 include Phyllis Botner, Eleanor Larsen, Susan Evans, Virginia Ogden, Marjorie Otten, and Jane Rainie. Nominated from the Class of 1951 were Patricia Connor, Joan Bresnahan, Elinor Sacks, and Mary Lou Slichter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Assembly Picks 18 Council Candidates | 3/25/1948 | See Source »

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