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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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CAPE YORK. The Dog . Weighs 1100 pounds of the nineteenth century had obtained material for knives and otherutensils from the masses. The three meteorites were known as a group to the Eskimo under the HOVEYt THE FOYER METEORITES 23 THE CAPE YORK METEORITES, A11n11;111to, i( The Tent, Tim: Woman \\i> The !)<,. (Siderites.) For centuries, and perhaps for thousands of years, the three masses of iron known as the Cape York meteorites lay n tin* north coast ofMelville Bay near Cape York, Greenland, bul they were seen for thefirst time hv a white person, when they were visited by CommanderRobert E. Peary, U. S. X., in 1894 and L895 under the guidance ofTallakoteah, a member of the Eskimo tribe which up to the earlv part
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CAPE YORK. The Dot;. Weighs lion pound/ of the nineteenth century had obtained material for knives and otherutensils from the mas The three meteorites were known as a group to the Eskimo under the 24 AM ERICA X MUSEUM GUIDE LEAFLETS name of Saviksue or The Great Irons/ and each had its own namesuggested by its shape. The smallest mass, weighing about 1,100pounds, was (ailed The Dog; the next larger mass, weighing aboutiluce tons, was named The Woman, because the shape was thoughtto suggest the squatting figure of a woman with a babe in her arms and ashawl thrown about her, and the largest mass, weighing more thanthirty six and one half tons, was known as The Tent. The last,however, has been formally christened by the daughter of the explorerwith her own name, Ahnighito. This great mass is 10 feet 11 incheslong, 6 feet 9 inches high and 5 feet 2 inches thick. The Woman and the Dog were visited by Peary in 1894 and wereobtained the following year after much difficult and exciting work,

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