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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Till' Imlf rui^rcl M'ul forms tla- staple diet of the Eskimo. All food adiniuisUatui - ui il.. World War would delight in the Eskimo's conservation of this food supply. No smallest part is wasted, even the intestines and the eyes are utilized as food. The skin furnishes tent material and clothing, and the fat is stored for winter fuel in the past this animal has kept the empty. Dui'ing the winter months Eskimo family from starvation in the many visitors have called. Walrus and decreasing twilight of better times— seal meat, birds and eggs are gone, the lono- summer dav. The locker is There is but little blubber. In semi-
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yeals begin to appear on the ice above their breathing holes about liie lirst of ilay. Tin- E>kimo seal hunter makes use of what we have learned to call a camouflage. He approaches his quarry screened by a white cloth which he binds on the front of a small sledge. Creeping stealthily across the ice to within thirty yards of the seal, he aims his rifle carefully through a hole in the screen and usually succeeds in wounding the animal 172

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