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...commemorative cairn is to be erected on the spot (Upernivik), with inscriptions in English and Eskimo. She ate whale skin ("a most toothsome delicacy") but balked at dried seal intestines. Before a U. S. Coast Guard cutter carried her to the U. S. she was given an Eskimo name, Inunguak ("real human being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Adventurous Ambassadress | 4/8/1935 | See Source »

...Greenland, dined on Eskimo food to the music of Eskimo accordions, reclined on Eskimo brixes, called each other by Eskimo names. Chief guest, addressed as Ipatuklivak (Mightily- Bearded-God), was Greenland's most jealous Danish protector, strapping, bushy Premier Thorvald Stauning. After dinner Madam Minister Owen, called Inunguak (Dear-Little-Woman), played records which she made in Greenland last summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 4, 1935 | 2/4/1935 | See Source »

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