From the March 25, 1933, issue

BLOND SIBERIANS WITH PAINTED MASKS UNEARTHED

Graves of mysterious blond and chestnut-haired people, who had a strange custom of making painted plaster masks for the dead, have been found by Russian scientists in Siberia, in the Minusinsk region. Word of the discovery was brought to the University of Pennsylvania Museum by Eugene Golomshtok.

Burial pits of the first centuries of the Christian era contained mummified remains of a chestnut-haired people, lying on wooden platforms and surrounded by rather poor possessions of pottery, iron and bronze, and wood.