Me-giss'oo and Shoo-eging-wah are playing with their pet dogs in tlie July sun at Etali. In the 

 summer months, on days when the wind is not too strong, Eskimo mothers give their babies sun 

 baths on bear or deerskins stretched on the ground. Needless to say the little people like it, and con- 

 tinue to like it until they are quite big boys and girls. 



Eskimo children are inured to relatively low temperatures, and the igloo with its seal-oil lamp 

 is so warm, even when the weather is bitterest outside, that they play about without their fur clothing. 

 In summer they are glad indeed to cast aside the fur while they play back and forth within the 

 toopik and out into the sunshine 



the hood. A bal)_v must havL' to eliug 

 to its mother like a cat or a monkey, for 

 the mother seems to talve ahnost any 

 kind of exercise and to bend down to 

 the ground freely without ever spilling 

 out the child. One cold morning Ahng- 

 ma-lok-to and his wife arrived at Ip- 

 soo-i-sook after two days of sledging 

 from Cape York. The latter s hood 

 looked large and heavy, and on exami- 

 nation I found that it contained a na- 

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ked baby only a few weeks old. Eskimo 

 babies begin to travel young, and with- 

 out much reference to temperature. I 

 asked Ahng-ma-lok-to where they had 

 spent the night and I learned that he 

 had built a snow igloo for shelter at 

 Sook-koon, ten or twelve miles south of 

 the ship. 



Soon after Christmas, 1916. Ah-wee- 

 ah-good-loo, although but fourteen years 

 old. presented her husband with a son 



