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ESKIMO HOME SCENE 



There are two instructive {rn)ui).s near tlie entrance to the Audi tori uni and underneath the 

 Stokes Mural paintings of the Land of the Midniuht Sun. In one, a home scene within a 

 snow house or "if;;loo," an Eskimo woman is cookinji blubVier over the flame from a seal oil 

 lamp, the other represents an I^skimo woman fishiiif: tliroujrh the ice. The Museum is rich 

 in Eskimo collections. 



to May undiM- the aus])i('(\'< of tin* Board of Ktliication. There are also 

 special leetures for McMiihers of the ^luseuni as well as lectures for school 

 childn^n. At the (Mitranc(^ of the lecture hall is a])i)ro])riately placed a 

 bust of Professor Albert S. Bicknior(\ oriiiinator of the movement that 

 resulted in th(> erection of tlie Muscnim. first curatoi*. and founder of its 

 lecture systcMu. 



In the adjoinin<i; corridor is a colltM-tion of tlie i)rincipal building 

 stones of the United States, and specimens of ])etrified wood from the 

 fossil forest of Arizona. 



