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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo18amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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With an equipment consisting of harpoon and float Eskimos hunt the walrus from their kayaks. The capture of a walrus is cause for great congratulation to the successful hunter In the coast region between Cape York and the Humboldt Glacier, musk oxen became extinct in 1860, not due to the introduction of firearms, but to the human instinct to kill something. This animal, with the help of dogs, is easily and fearlessly approached, and falls a victim to the killing iron as read- ily as to the modern rifle. Since 1898, when Pearv first Avin-
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E-took-a-shoo is inflating a sealskin to be used as a float in hunting walrus. This will be attached to the end of the harpoon line, and its position on the water after the harpoon has been thrown will mark the spot where the body of the walrus has sunk 174 tered in Smith Sound and obtained musk oxen at Bache Peninsula, Elles- mere Land, the Eskimos have journeyed almost annually to these musk oxen grounds. In )90T they first crossed the heights and descended into Bay Fiord and Eureka Sound, from which region hundreds of musk oxen were taken out last year, furnishing the very best meat and skins. x\nother important food of the Es- kimo is the caribou which is valued more for its light, warm skin than for its flesh. Caribou meat is tender and sweet, but lacks stamina-giving prop- erties for dog or man. Each year, in October, six or seven sledges can be seen slowly ascending Brother John's Glacier at the head of Foiilke Fiord. The trail leads to the north, to the I'ocky valleys and glistening lakes lyiug Ijetween the coast and the ice cap of Greenland. The children laugh, and chatter, and talk of hearts, tongues, and liver; the women watch their fox traps dangling from the back of the sledge and visualize themselves riding into southern settlements durinsf the

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