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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ClIILD-LII'l-: AMOXC; Till-: SMITH SOUXD /'JSKHfOS 371 become a comparatively easy t;isk now. since lie has l)een able to jiX't lioni-d^ ami other wood from the while man am! no lon^iitT is ol)liiieil to hish i)ieces of wliale- boiie together for ninm>rs and to utilize caribou antlers for ujistanders. The thick, tough skill of tlie oog-jook. or sqnaretlijipcr seal, is used for making heavy line such as is needed for whijis. dog traces, kah-iiioo-fiJi- lasliiug. har- jioon and lloat lines, and the likt'. Hence the lioy must learn t'ai-ly how to use a knife skillfully in ordei' to slit the oog-jook skin while soft into a long even stri)i aliout a half inch wide. This striji is then stretched and dried and ihes to beconn^ inde))endeni; and the head of his own t'aiiulv. and ho
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Kah-ko-chee-ahq, an Eskimo boy. — He has put, on the shirt of little auk skins inside out in order to show its beauty in the photograpli. The feathers are worn next the body. This is not an outer garment, but is ■worn (or not worn ac- cording to the weather) underneath the coat of sealskin, fo.xskin, or caribou skin marries—if there is a girl available. He is fortunate if he can have the girl who was picked out for him by the par- ents on both sides when the children Avere babies, because just now there are more boys than girls of mai'riageable age among these people of the Far Xorth. But children are children no longer when they reach the age for set- tini:- UD their own homes.

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