Word: eskimo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alas, the Eskimo Curlew. Most extreme of the Neo-Malthusian scare books is Vogt's Road to Survival. Vogt is an ornithologist, once editor of Bird Lore, who (to quote the book's jacket) "became interested in the relationship of man to his environment through his studies of bird behavior." Now chief of the Conservation Section of the Pan American Union, he still seems to care as much for "wildlife" (especially birds but including bighorn sheep) as he does for the .human species...
...simple Eskimo, best known for igloos and blubber-eating, may have been a bearer of culture to the New World. The Eskimos, says Curator Helge Larsen of Denmark's National Museum, once had a highly developed art, religion and social system. Perhaps they passed on a little of their culture before they lost...
...Larsen was at New York's American Museum of Natural History, gloating over the take of an airborne summer "dig." He had been in Alaska trying to determine the extent of the Ipiutak (ancient Eskimo) culture that flourished there 2,000 years ago. The forgotten culture, apparently, had more connection with Asia than with North America. Its elaborate tools and art objects look Siberian or Chinese...
Outing. In Portland, Ore., Motorman E. E. Burton took a critical look at his hot, perspiring streetcar passengers, pulled to a stop, bought Eskimo pies for the whole crowd...
More than a quarter of a century ago, Robert J. Flaherty, weighted down with camera equipment, slogged into the Eskimo country of north Canada and came back with a film called Nanook of the North. Now both the film and its maker are full of years and honors. Nanook has been shown all over the world, and Flaherty is known as the father of the documentary film...