The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
The FIRST BOOK of
ESKIMOS
The author and artist are indebted to a great many scientists and other careful observers whohave lived among the Eskimos. The whole record of our sources is too long to give, but here aresome we have found particularly helpful: various writings of Dr. Franz Boas, Vilhjalmur Stefansson,Rockwell Kent; also the Federal Writers Project, A Guide to Alaska, and books by EdwardMoffat Weyer, Jr., Clarence L. Andrews, Aage Gilberg, Knut Rasmussen, Fridtjof Nansen andPeter Freuchen. Many articles in the National Geographic Magazine have been consulted, as havepublications of the United States Natural History Museum. In addition to valuable pictorial materialin most of the foregoing, we have received assistance in preparing illustrations from theFish and Wild Life Service of the United States Department of the Interior.
Without help from all these sources and others, too, this book would not have been possible.Very special thanks go to Dr. Ruth Bunzel, anthropologist with the Bureau of Applied SocialResearch of Columbia University, for her advice regarding the manuscript.
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The FIRST BOOK of
ESKIMOS
by BENJAMIN BREWSTER
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This shows all the places where Eskimos have lived.
THE LAUGHING PEOPLE
If you could look down at theworld from high above the NorthPole, this is what you would see—anicy ocean with land almost allaround it. The brown-skinned peoplewho have lived along this shorefor many hundreds of years areEskimos.
a harpoon
When white men first met the Eskimos, they were su