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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('iiiLi)-i.iFi-: AMoxa 77//'; smith ^iorxn I'JSkimos :ui9 w t ninks. rc(Hlil'ci; lVr(;ll('llI I'lic hare >ii:ii'('S. too. al lent ioi), and (il'tci) im iiiv walks diil 1 niccl ilic iwn ;iickiiii: llicir \\a\ Imiiicw ai'il n\cr the I'oiiiili Ii'ail. .Mc-L;is-s"()o >la,i:;i:('rin,u almii;' un- ilc;- llcl' I'llITV lnif(lcll. Cai'iiii:- t'T the skins and makiiiii tliciii uii into rl(ithiii,ii" fall to tlie lot of llic wniiicii. All seal and liii'd skills iiiu>l lie <lic\\('d tai-t al l('a>l of tlicii' inliri'i'iit I'at and ti» soften the liliri'. a- ilii' I')skinio have nn wav of (annin.u hides. Me-gis-s"oo began on lit- tli' ank >kins destined for shirts. Chew- ing skins takes tlie place of embroiderv and otliei- fancy work with the female ;io)iulat ion,and oeenpies spare moments from eai'lx girlhood to old womanhood. Soniel iine> Me-gis-s"oo. Ali-nee-nali. and Ali-nah-dw ah. Ali-nee-nah"s mother, won Id sit in a row on one of our l)enches. each chewing vigorously on a skin of si:)nie s(U't. In ap))earance, it was not hotter than a chewing gum con- te>t in the N'ew York Subway, but it had the nii'rit of producing valnable results. Althougli the P^skimo garments have no surface ornamentation, skins of dif- ferent colors are cut into certain con- ventional )iatterns and sewed together to i»rodiice ju-etty effects of design. A womaiTs htih-jic-ldh. or hooded coat of fox skins, nuist show one combination of bine and white, while the man's l-ah- pe-tali mu.st show another. The same is true of the net'l or hooded coat made from the skin of the poo-ee-zhec. The kam-iJi-. or sealskin boot, is likewise of different pattern for the man and the woman. All the garments are cut out with the ()ii-h>o and sewed with sinew of narwhal or eai'ihon. and a girl must learn to do all this work well before she become> desiraljle as a wife. And girl- liood does not last long, for a girl is usually only from thirteen to sixteen years old when she takes over the cares of an indi'))endent lionsehold. The boy's education is more exten- sive and varied than the uiirs. It riin>
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Ke-nali loo bringing home a whito and a blue fox, obtained from her trap.s. She is wearing a sealskin coat, foxskin trunks, and sealskin boots mostlv to hunting game and the mak- ing of a;)))aratiis and iin))leinents con- nected therewith. 1 hav(> s))oken of his earlv ell'orts at dog driving, lie also must learn how to cut out and sew to- gether the harness for his dogs, which preferably is made of polar hear skin, although sealskin is often used for the ;nirpi)>e. lie must he able to make his own Ird/i-iiifiii-lil,' (sleilge) but this ha-

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