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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Tahtahrahq, when about three years old (1917), cutting meat. — In Eskimo land one eats when he is hungry — if there chance to be any meat. The children soon learn that there are times of plenty and feasting, and times of want, or even fam- ine. They learn early also one of the most highly developed of Eskimo virtues, hospitality: that no little boy or girl will ever be allowed to go without food as long as anyone in the tribe has some to be shared
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Me-gis-s'oo listening to the Victrola taken north by the Crocker Land Expedition taliq"s wife died, and she could not use it again until after some sulisequentlyborn child had been named in specific honor of the de- ceased. Most Eskimo names are fantastical or without signification, but Mer-k'oo means a feather, Tah-tah- rahq a raven, Ee-wid-doo sinew (thread), Ahl-ning- \v;\)\ a girl baby. The Eskimo children have almost no playthings: a few bits of bone, some- times rudely carved into representations of men, wo- men, seals, or walrus, pieces of flat stone, occasionally a small l-ah-moo-tik (sledge) which can be used for coast- ing on the hard snow banks, rarely a modification of the stick-and-ball toy or game —the list is not long. As soon as the light came back in the latter part of the winter, Ky-u-ti-kah and even Ky-u-tahq spent every day practising with a dog whip that Pood-lahq made for them. I was surprised to see how well the older little boy could snap the lash, which was twelve or fifteen feet long even on the small-sized model that he u.-(m1. The children grow up with the young dogs and are very fond of them. The consequence is that, when they grow large themselves, they know dogs thoroughly and can manage them well, the girls l)eing almost as adept as the boys. At Etah, there were sev- eral children around most of the time and we saw much of them at the expe- dition headquarters, where

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