ciiiLn-Lii'i-: AM().\(; riii-: sMrni soiwd h'sKiMos ;uir) 



;it Kt;ili. .'iiiil two (l;iy> al'tt'i' llic li;iliv"- Irilii'. Itui I lie cliildi-cii nfici) rcc('i\c tlir 



nrriviil she linui.uiit il iiilo r>(ii-u|i name of >()iii(' near or rciiintc rcla(i\('. 



LimIuc the (illlcial iiaiiir fur (Hir head- like Sohf-kalik wIkhii I lia\c ju.-t iiicn- 



i|uai1('i'> Ikhisc. 'I'lic ill faiil was <iiii|)lv lidiicd. nv n\' sunic I'i'cciitK' (Icccasccl 



nillcil ii|i ill tile wliiic fur (if an Arctic friciuk .Mcr-k"n(i was iiaincil fur ( )(i- 



liarc. a "raliKit skin"" — a rciiiiiKk'r of lali(|"> wi fc. who had died short I v hororc 



the ohi nursery rhyme. The liahy was th<' hirth id' h]e-iiet-lee-ah(|"s hah\-. and 



named Solw-kahk anionic- other name.-. her recei\iiiL; this name, tliiis |ie!'|)elii- 



iii lienor of his father's grandfather atiiii;' the womairs ineiiior\-. adiiwed 



who was a noted hunter, so that he in \ ah-\ rah-iia. I'eter |-"reucheir> wife, to 



turn iin\i:lit he successful in the cha-e rouiue it. .\ah-\ rah-iia had alwavs 



when lie i^reW up. lieell calle(l Mer-k"oo. hut cll>toni liad 



'I'liere are no faiiiilv names in the fiu'ced her to ilroji the iiaiue when ( )o- 



An Eskimo biiby. — It is spring. Tlie littk' auks liave conic to tlu'ir nesting cliffs in tlie Far 

 North. Eskimo women are shouting as they sweep tlie long-hanfllcd nets in air. All the children are 

 laughing. Little Tahtah-rahq. too young to walk, is waiting among the rocks while his mother tries 

 her skill with the net. (She has already caught one of the black and white birds, which lies on the 

 rock near the baby's head.) Below them stretches the great white ice of Foulke Fjord with dark 

 cliffs beyond, and in tlie air above swing and cirdi' the flocks of little auks 



