PAIXTIXas OF (IRKEXLAXn ESKIMO 7 



sun near their liole. Eskimo hunters have j^a-eat skill in ^nving deeov 

 sounds. Thev ean make cautious aj)j)roach to gulls hy waving a gull's 

 wing in the air, while whistling the bird's notes; they can allay the 

 suspicions of seals by lying fiat on the ice and waving a foot in imita- 

 tion of a seal's head, while giving the characteristic calls of the seals. 

 Beyond the seal hunter in the distance rises above the ice of the glacier, 

 a bell-shaped elevation of land which the Eskimo knows as a " nunatak." 

 Still farther to the left towers an iceberg, while over all is the dawniiicr 

 light of the summer that is being ushered in by Sukh-eh-nukh, the sun 

 goddess. 



Copyright 1908 by Frank Wilbert Stokes. 



ESKIMO STALKING THE SEAL 



From the Paiiitinji on the North Wall. 



The East W.m.i.. 



The first or norf/icrn panel — An Inuiiif Ktu-iDupnieni in Laic Antinnn. 



Pictures of actual events in Eskimo life are continui'd on the cast and 

 west sides of the hall, the unity of the compositions being gained by 

 making the sky line in the east and west i)ani-ls the same as that of the 



