Word: eskimo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there was a renascence of sprightlier activity. In Los Angeles one Jim Moran, who had once sold an icebox to an Eskimo, was sitting on an ostrich egg. He wore a feather headdress, a pair of "hatching pants" and thought he would bring forth a small ostrich in 25 days. Newark had a "pants burglar," who came in through windows like a wraith, left a penny on the floor for his victims. In Ellensburg, Wash, an ex-cowpuncher named Larry Hightower was preparing to push a wheelbarrow around the world...
Trader Campbell had not been long at his post at Cape Wolstenholme when his manager showed him a girl brought in by an Eskimo hunter. "He thinks you need a woman," the manager casually explained. Offended by her dirt and smell, Campbell sent her packing...
Kutakalook was different. She was a post servant and had received a sweater as a Christmas present from Campbell. "Kutakalook was the most attractive Eskimo girl I had ever seen," he comments judiciously. "She was spotlessly clean. . . . Here, sitting on my bed, was a girl who was offering herself to me . . . in return for the sweater...
...Other Eskimo notions were equally disconcerting to Campbell. When seals are killed, the Eskimos remove the eyes and swallow them so the animal cannot watch itself being skinned. The first time Campbell went on a walrus hunt, it all but turned his stomach to see a native gulping down handfuls of live maggots from the carcass. Once he tried a live worm from a slaughtered caribou, and found it most disagreeable...
Campbell was nowhere near so adventurous when, during a visit at an Eskimo camp, he was offered a wife for the night. That offer (rejected) illustrates his theme: "The Eskimo is communistic-he shares everything. He shares his sled, his dogs and his wife. He does not explain life. He lives...