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This is the Eskimo lady's needle book, and she could 

 not devise a better for her manner of life. She 

 prizes her needles very much, indeed, and cannot 

 afford to lose one. She sticks them into the soft 

 buckskin thong lengthwise, slips the metal cylinder 

 over them, and tucks the thong under her belt. So 

 there she is, with her needles perfectly safe and 

 where she can always get at them! Attached to 

 the same cylinder you may perhaps find a thong 

 carrying her three-cornered steel, made from an old 

 file, which she uses to put an edge on her knife. 



The Eskimos of the far North make waterproof 

 coats out of the intestines of bears, or other large 

 animals. The Aleut calls such a coat a "kamelinka." 

 It turns rain perfectly. A coat of this kind packs 

 into a small space. No white man can understand 

 how few and meager are the personal belongings 

 of these tribes who have to win their living from 

 hostile Nature. They cannot carry much with 

 them even if they had it to carry. For instance, you 

 will not find many dishpans in an Eskimo village. 

 Mother Eskimo takes a stone and pounds a hole 

 in the ground and pours it full of water. This 

 makes a very excellent dishpan, although the water 

 is not changed very often. 



Savage footwear is always an interesting study. 

 No doubt in your youthful reading you learned that 



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