Word: eskimo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...corner of Alaska nearest Siberia was probably man's first threshold to the Western Hemisphere. So for years archeologists have dug there for a clue to America's prehistoric past. Until last year, all the finds were obviously Eskimo. Then Anthropologists Froelich G. Rainey of the University of Alaska and two collaborators struck the remains of a town, of inciedible size and mysterious culture. Last week in Natural History Professor Rainey, still somewhat amazed, described this lost Arctic city...
...Arctic coast today an Eskimo village of even 250 folk can catch scarcely enough seals, whales, caribou to live on. What these ancient Alaskans ate is all the more puzzling because they seem to have lacked such Arctic weapons as the Eskimo harpoon...
...highly civilized man, he felt in 1938 a need for simplification, and removed himself to King William Land, an island not far from the Magnetic Pole. There he spent fall, winter and spring among a people withdrawn some 20,000 years from civilization, a stone-age remnant: the Netsilik Eskimos. Kabloona (Eskimo for white man), written in collaboration with Lewis Galantière, is his description of that strange year...
...Eskimo life, the most difficult and the poorest on earth, is utterly concentrated upon getting enough food. Their food is seal, caribou, tea, above all, raw frozen fish. They like rotten food even better (it is spicier) but there are few limits to what they will swallow. They eat enormously-50 lb. of meat per day for a family and its dogs-and belch and hawk and cough and spit continuously when indoors...
...Eskimo property is private but is constantly pooled. Straight gifts are regarded as amoral. Wives are habitually exchanged by the night, but any attempt at a permanent steal is liable to bring on a murder. They have no moral objection to murder, kill always from behind. The old are kindly treated until they are too much of a burden; then, with their own consent, they are left on the ice. Eskimos respect each other's privacy so much that they can watch an unhappy old man strangle himself, feel they have no right to prevent him. Sometimes...