PAINTINGS OF GREENLAND ESKIMO 7 



sun near their hole. Eskimo hunters have great skill in giving decoy 

 sounds. They can make cautious approach to gulls by waving a gull's 

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

 suspicions of seals by lying flat 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 dawning 

 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 Painting on the North \^■ull. 



The East ^VALL. 



The first or northern panel — An Innuif Eneampmetit in Late Aiifiimn. 



Pictures of acttial events in Eskimo life are continued on the east and 

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

 making the skv line in the east and west panels (he same as that of the 



