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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Tah-tah-rahq (three years old, 1917) with one of the sleds which the Crocker Land Expedition took north to the Eskimo children. An Eskimo boy does not often have a little sledge to play with be- cause there is seldom more than enough wood to make the family's big sledge — nevertheless he some- times has a great frolic sliding down hard snow slopes without a sled. Life for the Eskimo boy is more serious than for the American boy. and he is quieter. He must become self-supporting early and so must learn very much from his father: to make snow and stone igloos; to drive the dogs and make and mend the harness and the sledge; to use the rifle; to skin the game; to make harpoons, floats, kayaks; and finally when he is about fourteen, to hunt the seal, the walrus, and the polar bear
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I'hoto;/rai/li by E. O. Hovey Oo-quee-ahq. with his wife. Ah-tee-tah. and their two children, beside their toopik at Ip-soo-i-^ook, head of Parker Snow Bay, 1916. Oo-quee-ahq accompanied Peary to the Xorth Pole 370

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