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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo03amer (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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THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL their knives of bone of the whale. For himting whales and walrus they use harpoons with flint points, and drags made of whalebone and covered with seal-skin. The acquisition of this collection supijlements the Eskimo collections of the Museum in a most desirable manner. With our previous purchases and expeditions the culture of the Eskimo of Smith Sound, of Bafifin Land, of the west coast of Hudson Bay and of Alaska, was represented in the Museum. Captain Comer's collection fills in the gap between the collections from Hudson Bay and those from Baffin Land, and adds a link in the long interval between Hudson Bay and Alaska, which is so diffi- cult of access, and which is not represented in the Museum. During the past year a collection was also received from the Siberian Eskimo, made by Mr. Waldemar Bogoras while he was engaged in researches for the Jesup North Pacific Expedition. It remains now to obtain collections from the southern part of West Greenland and from East Greenland, from Labrador, and from the regions east of Mackenzie River, in order to represent adequately the whole culture of the Eskimo tribes.
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THE MUSEUM'S FIN-BACK WHALE. N November 22 a report came that two whales, a very large female and a small male, were stranded on the beach near the Forked River Life-Saving Station, Forked River, N. J. Messrs. Sherwood and Figgins of the ^luseum were sent at once to investigate the matter and to secure the skeletons and other material of interest. The party found that the female was a magnificent specimen measuring 67 feet 6 inches in length and about .^o feet in circumference. The length of the lower jaw was 14 feet 7 inches, that of the pectoral fin was 3 feet, and the caudal fin, or tail, was 12 feet 4 inches from tip to tip. There were 375 plates of baleen, or "whalebone," on each side of the upper jaw. The skin of the ventral surface formed about eighty longitudinal folds. The color was slatey blue on the back, and white with

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