Word: eskimoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...primary purpose of the expedition was to investigate the habits, tools, and technology of old Eskimo tribes. A secondary purpose, one which, according to Carter, "is present on all such surveys," was to find the bones of the original American...
...Michigan mine operator, Carlson is a first-rate geologist who has taught at the University of Michigan, knows Eskimo, and is a veteran of two major expeditions to Greenland. In 1937 he joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota, served as professor and director of admissions until World War II called him to Washington. Finally, after three years as a top consultant on Arctic affairs, ex-Colonel Carlson was ready for a presidency-first at the University of Delaware, then at Vermont...
Finno-Ugrian, a dialect of the Ural-Altaic language, is spoken in Lapland, Estonia, and Northern Siberia. Friesian is the vernacular of the Northern Netherlands and Friesland. Hyperborean, the oral-communication of the Chukchi and Koryak Eskimo tribes of the Arctic, is also spoken in Outer Mongolia...
Pretend to Be a Seal. The first thing Father Buliard did in Coppermine was to learn Eskimo-an accomplishment, he remarks happily, that gave him a great advantage over his Anglican rivals. He also learned how to put together a reasonable facsimile of a snowhouse, how to catch a seal (wriggle up to it, crawfish-style, pretending to be a seal yourself), and how to alleviate snow blindness by a few searing drops of kerosene in the eyes. He accustomed himself to the Eskimo menu, even to such delicacies as owl meat, scorpionfish liver, frozen raw fish, warm blood, seal...
This kind of Eskimo know-how contributed to Father Buliard's success as a missionary. One accomplishment: the establishment of the northernmost Catholic mission in the world, for which Pope Pius XI himself sent a chalice...