AN OLD WOMAN FISHING 



Seated in the shelter of a hummock of snow, with their eyes protected from the glare by goggles 

 f smoked glass, these old folks spend hours fishing through holes chopped in ihe ice. They are 

 ot troubled with cold fingers, and at the end of the day they drag their catch home upon little 

 edges. 



AN ESKIMO WOMAN SCRAPING A SEALSKIN 



|The skin is stretched over a board in a tub and the woman is preparing it for boot-making by 

 (raping off the hair. Formerly the shoulder-blade of a seal was used for the scraping, but thi rounded 

 jiddlers' knives are now used. 



