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...alcove cause at a cost of approximately ten thousand dollars, the greater part of this work being made possible through the generosity of friends of the Museum. These cases furnish more than 3300 square feet of exhibition space, and in them are now being installed the ethnological collections form Tibet, Burma, and northern India, secured by professor Dixon; the collections recently acquired from the native peoples of Siberia, including the Chukchi, Yakut, Samoyed, and Goldi; and those from the Malay Archipelago, the Philippine Island, and certain other group of the western pacific...
Just as the brothers Roosevelt were sailing home last week after their natural historical expedition into Tibet and Turkestan for the Field Museum of Chicago; just as the Roosevelts' head naturalist and taxidermist, George K. Cherrie, landed at Boston with photographs of bearded, turbaned Roosevelts, with wild tales of riding surly, pack-yaks, and with first-hand news of the 750 birds and 250 animals "of great scientific value" that they had collected, including spiral-horned Ovis poll (Marco Polo sheep), goitered gazelles, shaggy ibexes, shaggier Asian bears, long-haired tigers and smaller, rarer fauna, scarce or unknown...
Starting at sea level, the caravan slowly plodded through jungles of rich verdure and through luxuriant forests until the trees disappeared and they passed over glacial passes onto the flat barren plain of Tibet...
...Tsarevitch. The editor of Krasnya warmly defended his action in publishing the story: "I am a good Communist. ... I wanted people to know that the Tsar is really dead, because of the spread of a false rumor that Lord Kitchener smuggled him to a Buddhist monastery in Tibet. ... I want everyone to know that Comrade Wykoff annihilated the last vestige of the Tsar with sulphuric acid...
...three months, the U. S. raved; in six, England shrieked; in a year his hat, feet, waddle and harrassed, insouciant smirk were familiar to South Sea Islanders who pasted his picture on the walls of their bathhouses; to lamas in Tibet who chucked each other in the ribs at a mention of his name; to bushwackers, coolies, Cossacks, Slavs, Nordics. His salary became $1.000, $2,000 $3,000 a week. One film company after another outbid each other for him; he worked for Essanay, Mutual, First National, United Artists...