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SKIMO IN SEALSKIN CANOE HARPOONING A NARWHAL

Identifier: scienceguide1630amer (find matches)
Title: Guide leaflet
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history
Publisher: New York : The Museum
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO

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Copyright 1908 by Frank Wxlbert Stokes. REINDEER HUNTING IN SUMMER. The northern panel of the WestWall. H PAINTINGS OF GREENLAND ESKIMO 15
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■ s by Frank WHbert Stokes. ESKIMO IN SEALSKIN CANOE HARPOONING A NARWHAL The central panel of the Wesl Wall. seaweed used commonly for food is Alaria pylaii, closely allied to blad-derlocks, of Scotland, and in flavor somewhat like asparagus. The Central Panel Narwhal Hunting in Summer. The dramatic renter of this panel ig an Iinmit in his kayak or sealskincanoe in the act of harpooning a narwhal, which is visible beneath the 16 AMERICAN MUSEUM GUIDE LEAFLETS surface of the water at the left of the boat. To the right in the middledistance are fulmar gulls. In the distance is the great ice river, theVerhoeff glacier. The narwhal is an animal about which little is definitely known.Some, notably Peary, think that it is the fabled unicorn of the ancients.It occasionally has both a long and a short horn, one of which it maylose, however. The narwhal is blue-black along the back and spottedwith dark along the sides, the color fading into ivory white underneath.The thin skin covers a very

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no.16-30
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  • bookid:scienceguide1630amer
  • bookyear:1901
  • bookdecade:1900
  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • booksubject:American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • booksubject:Natural_history
  • bookpublisher:New_York___The_Museum
  • bookcontributor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History_Library
  • booksponsor:IMLS___LSTA___METRO
  • bookleafnumber:761
  • bookcollection:americanmuseumnaturalhistory
  • bookcollection:biodiversity
  • bookcollection:americana
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