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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Anglican Grace, the Bishop of London, will disembark on the U. S. heath "within the next few weeks." The Bishop, the item noted, would bring his vestments with him. His equipage will include a wardrobe which would be the envy of a Zulu wife-hunter for brilliance, of an Eskimo seal-hunter for warmth, of a U. S. antique-hunter for traditions. The most venerable are the: Alb, which is a white linen robe, once form-fitting (contracted from the flowing garment of Biblical times in order to give greater facility in handling dripping baptised persons), but recently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Vestments | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

Anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka is off to search the shores of Kotzebue and Norton Sounds, Alaska, for traces of battlegrounds storied in Eskimo legend, where Asian ancestors of the Indians may have fought among themselves during successive waves of migration across the icefields from Siberia and the Diomede Islands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Expeditions: Jul. 5, 1926 | 7/5/1926 | See Source »

...upper fringes of Alaska makes a well-timed appearance. As Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson agrees in the preface, it is a good kind of introduction to "the friendly Arctic" for folk who have never been there, since Author Rossman was a tenderfoot when he took his cinema cameras to the Eskimo village of Wainwright* and settled down for the hard winter of 1923-24. An able newspaperman, Rossman put in his diary, and has here expanded, facts and fresh impressions which an habitue of the North might have omitted as commonplace: that an Alaskan city was called Nome when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Friendly Arctic | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

Malamute Saloon, brought to fame by Rhymster Robert W. Service, still functions tamely; that igloos are seldom built of snow, but usually of driftwood and turfs; that William T. Lopp, onetime U. S. education chief for Alaska, got the Eskimos started in the reindeer industry, of which Carl Lomen is king; that there is said to be a mountain of jade in the wild hinterland; that Eskimo seamstresses wear their teeth to the gums chewing deerhide into shape; that whaling parties will travel afoot 30 miles out on the unevenly frozen ocean hunting for open leads to watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Friendly Arctic | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

Last week the grey silence of northern Alaska was ruptured by an occasional rifle crack. Furtive eyes of the wild hiding in snow-hung tamarack tangles would see a fur-muffled Eskimo dragging his quarry to a camp fire, where seven other humans busied themselves preparing sledges and sleeping bags for another night in the wilderness, and 58 tawny-and-grey husky dogs nuzzled down to rest or sat on their haunches growling for supper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: In Alaska | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

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