Word: eskimoes
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...display form a striking collection whose richness is apparent even to the layman. Some of these, gathered over the past five years by means of 25 different expditions sent all over the world, are of particular interest. In the main hallway on the ground floor is an exhibit of Eskimo culture, which illustrates the newly - conceived, "Museum" technique of exhibiting only a few objects in a case at one time. The theory behind this is that one well placed bow and arrow or a single sled will teach more to the average observer than a case chock full of implements...
Engaged. The Right Rev. Archibald Lang Fleming, the Anglican Church's "Flying Bishop" of the Arctic; and Elizabeth Nelson Lukens, associate headmistress of The Agnes Irwin School near Philadelphia; in Philadelphia. "Archibald the Arctic" (his signature) makes biennial flights to visit his scattered Eskimo flock...
...table covered with the Union Jack sat Justice C. P. Plaxton from Toronto. Before him was a. scratch jury of miners, newspapermen, the crew of the schooner which had sailed 13 days to bring the court to the islands. From the half-tanned sealskins of the Eskimo defendants, witnesses and attentive spectators rose a sour, oily stink...
Unfolded at the trial was the complete story of the crazy religious killings reported from the islands last spring (TIME, April 21). Witnesses told how Peter Sala had in the long winter months decided that he was Christ returned again to earth. One Charlie Ouyerack said that another Eskimo had told him that he (Charlie) also was Christ and he believed it. Sala and Ouyerack together, with their disciples murdered three Eskimos who doubted that they were Messiahs. Two women and four children died two months later when a woman called Mina drove a whole village...
They might even be sentenced to be hanged, which would be too bad. But they are much more likely to go to jail, that Eskimo heaven where it is always nice and warm and there is nothing to do but eat and sleep...