
ESKIMO HOME SCENE 
There are two notable groups near the entrance to the Auditorium and underneath 
the Stokes mural paintings of the Land of the Midnight Sun. In one, a home scene within 
a snow house or ‘‘igloo,’’ an Eskimo woman is cooking blubber over the flame from a 
seal oil lamp. The Museum is rich in Eskimo collections 
SOUTH CENTRAL WING 
INDIANS OF THE NortH Paciric Coast 
North of Memorial Hall, that is to the rear of the Jesup statue, is the 
Indians of North Pacific Hall where are displayed collections illustrating 
British the culture of the Indians of the Northwest Coast of America 
Columbia and also of the Eskimo. These collections are arranged 
and Alaska geographically so that in passing from south to north through 
the hall the visitor meets the tribes in the same sequence that he would in 
traveling up the west coast of North America. 
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