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ESKIMO GODDESS OF THE SUN. 



From the painting on the North Wall. 



Copyright 1908 hy Frank Wilbert Stokes. 

 CourUsij n! Scribner's Magazine. 



Against the vivid gold and red of the center of the painting is por- 

 trayed the artist's conception of the Eskimo myth of the '•Sun and the 



Moon." There is presented a pant mirage of two figures in full pursuit 

 through the air. These figures are Ahn-ing-ah-neh, a hunter, typifying 



the moon and ushering in the long winter, anil Siikh-eh-nnkh, standing 

 For the sun. a goddess accompanied by summer and plenty. Ahn-ing- 

 ah-neh is dressed in winter garb and is driving his team of dogs. The 

 lower part of the figure, like the dogs and sledge, are shadowy in the 

 painting, l>nt the upper part reaching forward in the chase, the head 

 and the right arm with its lashing whip, stand out strong and dark as the 

 forward part of a night cloud that sweeps over the glacier-covered heights. 

 Sukh-eh-nukh is represented by a figure uncovered to the waist the 

 Eskimo, both men and women, occasionally strip off the upper garments 

 in the summer sun). She carries in her right hand an Eskimo lamp, 

 shown as a sun-dog or parhelion such as is often seen near the horizon 

 ,it sunrise ai d sin set in the Arctics. She is a part of a cumulus summer 



