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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo07amer (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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24 AM!./(IC.IX MrSKCM (d'lDE LEAFU'/FS name of "^'aviksiu'" or "The Great Irons," and each had its own name suggested In its sliaj)e. The smallest mass, weighing about 1,100 pounds, was tailed "The Dog"; the next larger mass, weighing ahout three tons, was named "The Woman," because the shape was thought to suggest the'squatting figure of a woman with a babe in her arms and a shawl thrown about her, and the largest mass, weighing more than thirty six and one half tons, was known as "I'he '^IVnt." The last, however, has been formally christened by the daughter of the explorer with her own name, " Ahnighito." This great mass is 10 feet 11 inches long, () feet 0 inches high and 5 feet 2 inches thick. The Woman and the Dog were visited by Peary in 1S04 and were obtained the following year after much difficult and exciting work, an incident of which was the breaking up of the cake of ice on which the Woman had been ferried from the shore to ship just as the mass was about to be hoisted aboard. Fortunately there was enough tackle around the meteorite to j^revent its loss. In ISOo, Commander Peary visited Ahnighito, also, which lay on an island only four miles from the two smaller masses, but he could do little toward its removal. The next year he made another voyage for the purpd.se of getting the great iron but was unsuccessful. His third Mttcm))t was made in 1S97, and the meteorite was brought safely to New ^'ork in ihe ship "Ilojie."
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SECTION OF AHNIGHITO. NATURAL SIZE. Shows hroad Wiiliimn.statten lines. 'i'he three masses are closely similar in chemical composition, ar.alyses by .). K. Whitfield giving the following results: The Dog. 'IIk •^^ (»ni:in. Almigliilo, Iron 90.99% '•>! -^TVr 91 .4S% Nickel 8.27% 7.7S% 7.79% Cobalt 0.r):i% ; 0.53% 0.53%,

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