From the January 20, 1934, issue
By Science News
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GRAVE OF PREHISTORIC CHIEF’S DAUGHTER EXCAVATED
A girl of 20, almost toothless! This is the pathetic picture of prehistoric Alaska revealed in the skeleton of an Eskimo chief’s daughter.
The grave of the girl, discovered in southwestern Alaska by Dr. Frederica de Laguna of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, yielded the skeleton. An osteologist at the museum has examined the bones and pronounced the smooth surfaces of the joints typical of a young woman in the early twenties. But at the time of her death, only three or four teeth were in the upper jaw, and not many more in the lower jaw. The others had fallen out some time before, leaving her with the shrunken cheeks of an old woman.