REINDEER MEAT DRESSED AT NOME, ALASKA, EOR MARKET IN THE STATES 



The meat has a flavor between beef and mutton. The carcass is frozen with the hide on 

 and shipped to Minneapolis or Seattle for distribution. It is estimated that the tundras of 

 Alaska can support 10,000,000 reindeer. 



Using her arms, hands, and fingers as 

 anatomical measuring sticks, the Eskimo 

 seamstress makes the hood a perfect fit, 

 and trims it with a fringe of wolverine. 

 The finest traveling outfit contains two 

 parkas — one worn with the fur in and 

 w T ith the hood trimmed with wolverine ; 

 the other with the fur out and trimmed 

 with wolfskin. 



As frost does not adhere to wolverine 

 fur, the latter is especially desirable to 

 wear next to the face. The tiny hairy 

 icicles formed on other fur from con- 

 gealed moisture of the breath are most 

 uncomfortable. The longer hair of the 

 wolfskin trimming blows across the face, 

 thus protecting it from icy blasts. Both 

 parkas are worn at the same time. 



•GIRES USE THEIR TEETH TO SHAPE COOTS 



In northern Europe reindeer gloves are 

 "highly prized by reason of their warmth 

 and because moisture does not injure 

 them. They command three times the 

 price, on the European market, of their 

 closest rival, the heavy mocha glove. 

 The Alaskans do not use reindeer hide 

 for gloves, but they do make from it mit- 

 tens and a warm boot or muk-hik. The 

 soles of the muk-luk are ingeniously 



shaped to fit the foot by expert Eskimo 

 girls, whose crimping tools are none other 

 than their teeth. 



The Bureau of Education, acting under 

 the Department of the Interior, first in- 

 troduced the reindeer into Alaska, not as 

 a live-stock proposition, but primarily to 

 assist the Eskimo (who, like the Indian, 

 is the ward of the Interior Department"), 

 and the industry has been developed by 

 that department. 



The Eskimos own approximately 70 

 per cent of all the deer in Alaska, and 

 the Bureau of Education has been much 

 handicapped by the smallness of the 

 $5,000 annual appropriation granted in 

 recent years to care for the industry, in- 

 struct herders, and administer general 

 supervision over herds which cover a 

 stretch of territory more than a thousand 

 miles in extent. 



DEER BROUGHT TO ALASKA TO AID THE 

 ESKIMO 



Congress would do well to double the 

 amount, for it is safe to say that few. if 

 any, appropriations made by that body 

 bring as big returns as the "reindeer ap- 

 propriation" handled by the Bureau of 

 Education. 



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