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THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 



Copyright 1908 by Frank Wilbert Stukrs. 



WALRUS HUNTING IN THE LIGHT OF THE AURORA BOREALIS. 



The central panel of the East ^^:lll. 



weird light is made visible the attack of an Innuit hunter upon a^arge 

 walrus, one of a group of three in the central foreground of the picture. 

 In the immediate foregrounfl to the right a bull wah-us is just emerging 

 from the water. There is no look of fear in the animal's dog-like eye, 

 since he has not yet caught sight of the hunter. 



In the Arctics the barking of walrus can be heard for miles. When 



