SCENES FROM THE EASTERN ARCTIC ' 

 REPRODUCTIONS IN GRAVURE FROM PHOTOGRAPHS 



BY DONALD B. MACMILLAN 

 LEADER OF THE CROCKER LAND EXPEDITION. 19131917 



In addition to its scientific data and collections in geology, botany. zooloRy, and other lines of field rcseaich. the Crocker 



Land Expedition brouKht back nearly 5000 neRaiives and 12/JOO feet of motion picture film These are of 



especial value in showing the country and the manner^* and customs of the Smith Sound Eskimos 



PAN ICE AT ETAH, NORTH GREENLAND 



Salt water freezes in the North to a thickness of from six to nine feet. This shows one season's ice which drifted from 

 the inner bays and fiords out into the harbor of Etah about July 1- There are about ten Eskimos livinK at Etah. 

 There are 276 Eskimos altogether in the Smith Sound tribe. Contrary to the prophecy of early explorers, 

 this tribe is increasing in numbers. In 1906 there were only LM 1 . Etah is the most northei n settle- 

 ment ; the most southern i-^ Capt- Seddon in Melville Bay 



' Illustrations and text, together with the preceding article, copyiiphted. 1918, by Donald B. MacMillan 



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