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Title: Children of the Arctic
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: (Peary, Josephine (Diebitsch) Mrs.) Peary, Marie Ahnighito, 1893-1978, joint author
Subjects: Children
Publisher: New York, F.A. Stokes Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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as scarcely twofeet high, and opened into a long, low passage-way which ended in a vestibule as high as theigloo itself. This passage-way and vestibuleAchatingwahs father built of snow-blocks. The natives leave their fox-skin kapetahs (coats)in this vestibule if they are covered with snow,for if they took them into the warm igloo thesnow would melt, and it would take a long whileto dry the heavy fur garments. After the skins had been put on the platformAchatingwah brought in two Eskimo lamps withwhich to heat and light the igloo. These were cut out oi soapstone by her fatherwith his knife, and were shaped like our dust-pans. She filled them with small pieces of blub-ber from the seal, and then placed dried mossacross the straight side. This she lighted, andthe heat from it melted the blubber and soakedit up, burning it like a wick. These lamps mustbe tended all the time, or the smoke from themwould soon cover everything with a greasy soot. Near the top of the igloo above the lamps, 68
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06-doO (Girls knifi) Kol-lup-SOO (Cot.iwg Pot) Kom-i-tik (sledge) Al-luk-SOOt (S/>o«>i)King-mek (The Dag) Ka/l-Hl-O-IVah (The Narwhal) Ak-wik-SO-ah (The tValrui) Too-loo-ah (The Raven) Ter-l-a-nt-ak (The Foi) Nan-nook-SO-ah (The Bear) King-mek (The Dag) In-nuk-SU-e (Men and Wamen)Kay-ak (Canae) E-ka-lu-ah (The Salmon) ^■ESKIMO TOTS CARVED FROM THE TEETH OF THE WALRUS 69 CHILDREN OF THE ARCTIC Achatino-wahs mother fastened a sort of lattice-work rack, made bv lashing- sticks together withsinew. On this the members of the family puttheir wet stockmgs, mittens, and shirts to dry. Close down over each lamp she hung anoblong-shaped pot, also made of soapstone, inwhich the snow is melted for drinking-water.The Eskimos never use water tor any otherpurpose. They had never heard of a bath untilAH-XI-GHI-TOS father and mother cameamono; them, and the most they ever did wasto wipe their faces with a greasy bird-skin. x-\chatingwah now helped her mother bringtheir stock ot bear, deer, an

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