Boarding School and Land Allotment Eras 1879-1933

1931-1936

Grave robbing continues

Ales Hrdlicka. Image: Archive Museum of Ales Hrdlicka
Ales Hrdlicka. Image: Archive Museum of Ales Hrdlicka

Ales Hrdlicka of the Department of Anthropology of the Smithsonian travels to the Larsen Bay Village of Kodiak Island, Alaska. He exhumes and carries off 800 Alaska Native remains and more than 1,000 burial offerings (Bray and Killion, 1994).

Traumatic Event