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 AN ESKIMO FAMILY HEALTHY, HAPPY, INDEPENDENT 



Pood-lahq. his wife Ee-net-lee-ahq, and their two-year-old daughter, Mer-k'oo. An Eskimo baby is car- 

 ried in the hood of its mother's coat from the time it is born until it is about two years old — and some- 

 times longer if there is no smaller baby to take its place. Compared with American children, it is said 

 that Eskimo babies are backward, not beginning to stand alone until two years old. Carrying the baby 

 in this way does not seem to inconvenience the mother greatly, and as for the baby, it is exceedingly 

 comfortable. It is rocked as in a cradle when she moves and bends about her work ; it is lulled to sleep 

 as she laughs and chats with its father; and when she goes to the fox traps or journeys to some neigh- 

 boring igloo, the child settles more snugly into the hood, soon becoming accustomed to the sting of frosty 

 air on its face and to the sight of vast stretches of snow and ice 

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