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...articles taken from the graves of Eskimos of the North Labrador peninsula. The collection, which was made by Dr. Bryant during a visit to the Labrador coast last summer, will be on exhibition the latter part of this month. A miniature group, illustrating the houses of the Eskimos of Baffin Land, has recently been set up and is now on exhibition on the second floor of the museum...
...Boaz is in charge of the department of anthropology at Columbia, and is curator of ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He has spent much time with the Esquimaux in Baffin's Bay, and the Indians in British Columbia and Southern Alaska, as well as throughout the entire Pacific Coast. Besides having written extensively on these particular regions, and on various general questions of anthropology, Dr. Boaz was director of the Morris Jessup expedition to Behring Strait, which was engaged for six years in the study of the peoples of Northeastern Asia and Northwestern America...
...planned that twenty men at a cost of 8500 apiece charter the steamer "Leopard," of 320 tones (gross) and explore the coasts of Greenland as far as Disko, of Baffin Land to the head of Frobisher Bay, and of Labrador, including Ungana bay and the high mountain ranges on the northern coast. The "Leopard" has sufficient coal capacity for this cruise, is built to penetrate ice-fields, and would be very roomy for a party of twenty. The chief aim of this expedition will be to combine geological sight-seeing with as much serious exploration as possible...
...SUMMER IN THE NORTH.- I shall take a small party to Baffin Land this summer for two months' hunting and sightseeing in and about Frobisher Bay. This country lies west of Davis Straits and north of Labrador and Hudson's Straits, inhabited only by Eskimos and abounding in game. Walrus, bear and seal are found in Frobisher Bay, while the interior is the resort of reindeer...
...fact that a ship is to stop at Baffin Land this summer makes it an exceptional opportunity for sportsmen to visit this heretofore inaccessible country. For expenses and further particulars, address...