Identifier: northwardovergre01pear (find matches)
Title: Northward over the "great ice" : a narrative of life and work along the shores and upon the interior ice-cap of northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891-1897 ...
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920
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Publisher: New York : F. A. Stokes Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ADULT MAN.Flash-light. ADULT \VOMAN. Flash-light. ing the winter, of seventy-five individuals, and I tooka complete series of photographs of the same persons,comprising portraits, and front, side, and rear eleva-tions in the nude, of each subject. Through the Great Night 175 f On one side of the stove, near the partition sepa-rating Mrs. Pearys apartment from the ^a> ™°>;;Jstationed myself to handle the camera. On the otherside was Matt manipulatino: the flash-light. Dr. Lookwould pose the sub ect at the other end of the roomand near at hand was a table at which he recorded hisanthropological measurements. , , 1 ^i It was interesting to observe the modestyj^oththe women and the men. They could ■not understand at first why 1 desiredto take their pictures in a nude condi-tion and 1 am not sure that they everaot a very clear idea of the matter.I told them that we wished to comparetheir bodies with those of other peoplein the world, and it was not long beforesome of them graspe

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