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...which Eskimo is based. Van Dyke himself is a police inspector. When he came back to Hollywood last spring with 600,000 feet of film, Director Van Dyke brought along a dozen Eskimos for interior sequences. They endured Hollywood for six months, hurried North when their supply of canned reindeer meat gave...
...idea that Lapps keep reindeer just as other people keep cows is ridiculous. Reindeer are still "wild"; the animals migrate regularly to their winter and summer feeding grounds, without asking anyone's permission, and because Laplanders live entirely upon reindeer, they have become nomads of necessity. Reindeer . . . feed themselves; and even when the snow is three feet deep, the animals dig holes in the snow and can be seen eating reindeer moss, standing on their heads with only their wagging tails visible...
Some years ago, when reindeer were introduced to Alaska, a few Lapps were brought to this country with them. Most of them eventually returned to Lapland, but one Laplander settled in Seattle, married an American girl and became a very successful banker...
...Lappish description of Lapp quarreling, drinking and reindeer-stealing (most heinous Lapp offense) see Turi's Book of Lapland by Lapland's sole author of note, Johan Olafsson Turi (b. 1860), who philosophically observes "When you will tell of everything you must write both of the ugly and the beautiful...
Raising herds of reindeer is almost the sole business of nomad Lapps. Illiterate and uncivilized, they make little or no distinction between Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, roam the extreme northern wastes of those countries which they call "Lapland." When winter comes adult nomad Lapps have a persistent habit of getting dead drunk for months at a time, leave to their hardy children the task of feeding the reindeer. When two Lapp men fight in earnest-and if they fight at all it is generally in earnest-the victor is apt to make a eunuch of his foe. Last week...