Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo09amer (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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PAINTINGS OF GREENLAND ESKIMO 213
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ESKIMO CONCEPTION OF THE MOON, HUNTER IN PURSUIT OF THE SUN. Copyright 1908 by Frank Wilbert Stokes. Courtesy of Scribner's Magrizine. the moon and ushering in the long winter, and Sukh-eh-nukli, standing for 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. The lower part of the figure, like the dogs and sledge, are shadowy in the painting, but the upper part reaching forward in the chase, the head and the right arm with its lashing whip, stand out strong and dark as the forward part of a night cloud that sweeps over the glacier-covered heights. Sukh-eh-nukh is represented by a figure uncovered to the waist (the Eskimo, both men and women, occasionally strip off the upper garments in the summer sun). She carries in her right hand an Eskimo lamp, shown as a sun-dog or parhelion such as is often seen near the horizon at sunrise and sunset in the Arctics. She is a part of a cumulus summer cloud that floats near her head. Summer birds are about her, a long line following from the far away horizon. Two fulmar gulls are flying in front of her, and two harbor seals are crying to her, the " Mother of the Seals," from floating ice below, where also little Arctic puffins are ranged in military line.

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