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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo03amer (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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THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL by Sir John Ross in 1830. Later the ships commanded by Sir John Frankhn were crushed by the ice near the coasts inhabited by this tribe, and the whole crew perished in their territory. Ever since that time the Eskimo of this district have utilized the copper and brass which they found on the lost ships to make their kettles, knives and other implements. In the collection
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MAP OF NORTHERN PART OF NORTH AMERICA, SHOWlNo REGIONS REPRESENTED IN THE ETHNOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS IN THE MUSEUM made by Captain Comer there are a great many objects which are made of metal obtained from Sir John Franklin's ships. Perhaps the most interesting of all the specimens in the col- lection is a shaman's coat, which is figured on page 2. The coat is made of caribou skin, and ornamented with figures cut out of the white skin from the foot of the caribou. It is the only known specimen of a shaman's coat used by an Eskimo, and it is inter- esting because it resembles in many details the shamans' coats used by the tribes of northeastern Siberia. Tlie circles and the

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1903
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  • bookyear:c1900-[1918]
  • bookdecade:c190
  • bookcentury:c100
  • bookauthor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • booksubject:Natural_history
  • bookpublisher:New_York_American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • bookcontributor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History_Library
  • booksponsor:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library
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