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Title: Guide leaflet
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history
Publisher: New York : The Museum
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO

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tude, and worked there during fourteen months, with the primitivelife of the Eskimo and the glowing colors of the northern land under con-stant observation. As William Walton has said in an article in ScribnersMagazine for February, 1909, Mr. Stokes has here succeeded, despite theinadequacy of pigments, in well suggesting theutmosl splendor of lightthat blazes in the Polar skies and glows in the Polar, translucent ice. • Tin; North Wall. The largest picture of the series -in full view from the main foyerof the Museum — is a continuous panorama sixty feet long. It isintense and realistic in its coloring. In the center the glow of a mid-night sun illuminates promontories and sea, toward the right this bril-liant color gradually fades to the gray and purple of the twilight thatprecedes the long Arctic night, while toward the left it changes to thewhite light- and deep blue shadows of that other twilight that foretellsthe approach of the long Arctic day. AMERICAN MUSEUM GUIDE LEAFLETS
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ESKIMO GODDESS OF THE SUN. From the painting on the North Wall. Copyright 1908 by Frank Wilbert Stokes.Courtesy of Scribners Magazine. Against the vivid gold and red of the center of the painting is por-trayed the artists conception of the Eskimo myth of the Sun and theMoon. There is presented a giant mirage of two figures in full pursuitthrough the air. These figures are Ahn-ing-ah-neh, a hunter, typifyingthe moon and ushering in the long winter, and Sukh-eh-nukh, standingfor the sun, a goddess accompanied by summer and plenty. Ahn-ing-ah-neh is dressed in winter garb and is driving his team of dogs. Thelower part of the figure, like the dogs and sledge, are shadowy in thepainting, but the upper part reaching forward in the chase, the headand the right arm with its lashing whip, stand out strong and dark as theforward part of a night cloud that sweeps over the glacier-covered heights.Sukh-eh-nukh is represented by a figure uncovered to the waist (theEskimo, both men and women, occasi

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