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IN reviewing a book on totem poles in the Pacific coast region of British Columbia, Dr. G. H. S. Bushnell1 accepts the suggestion that “the north-west coastal tribes may themselves have come over from Siberia within the preceding few centuries”. This conclusion, which was formerly held, is negatived not only by the fact that the Eskimos have long occupied the whole of the Alaskan coast, but also by the blood groups of the Indians in question.
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GATES, R. Totem Poles and Blood Groups. Nature 170, 377 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1038/170377b0
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