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THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 



ESKIMO GODDESS OF THE SUN. 



From the painting on the North Wall. 



Copyright 1908 hy Frank Wilbert Stokes. 

 Courtesy of Scrib'ner's Magazine. 



ina(le(|uacv of i)io;ment.s, in well suggesting "the utmost splendor of li2:ht 

 that blazes in the Polar skies and glows in the Polar, tranluscent ice." 



The North Wall. 



The largest picture of the series — in ftill view from the main foyer 

 of the Museum — is a continuous panorama sixty feet long. It is 

 intense and realistic in its coloring. In the center the glow^ of a mid- 

 night sun illuminates promontories and sea, toward the right this bril- 

 liant color gradually fades to the gray and purple of the twalight that 

 precedes the long Arctic night, while toward the left it changes to the 

 white lights and deep blue shadows of that other twilight that foretells 

 the approach of the long Arctic day. 



Against the vivid gold and red of the center of the painting is por- 

 trayed the artist's conception of the Eskimo myth of the " Sim and the 

 Moon." There is presented a giant mirage of two figures in full pursuit 

 through the air. These figures are Ahn-ing-ah-neh, a hunter, typifying 



