8 AMERICAN MUSEUM GUIDE LEAFLETS 



painting on the north wall. The three panels on the oast wall continue 

 pictures of Eskimo life as it goes on during the Arctic night. 



The first of the panels gives a view of Inglefield Gulf, which by 

 November is well frozen over. In the foreground to the right an 

 Innuit (Memkashoo) is cutting up pieces of meat and feeding his 

 team after a hunting trip. The sledge lies to the left, and just beyond 

 is an Innuit woman with her babe carried on her back in a pouch. Such 

 a pouch is made of fox skin and is a part of the hooded upper garment. 

 The head and shoulders of the child are covered by soft fox skin, but the 

 rest of its body lies naked against the mother's bare back and so is kept 

 warm. The child is secured in the pouch by a sinew which passes around 

 its body and around the upper part of the mother's waist. 



A little Innuit boy stands by his mother, watching his playmate, an 

 Eskimo puppy. Immediately to the right is the stone-built entrance of 

 the igloo, or winter residence, which, partly covered with snow, is itself 

 seen directly behind the figures. The seal-entrail window of the igloo 

 reveals a pale light from the lamp within, a lamp which must serve the 

 purposes of lighting, heating, cooking and drying for the whole family. 



Beyond in the middle distance to the left is a bay, its shore covered 

 with snow which is about three inches in depth at this season. Beyond 

 the bay is a long low promontory stretching into the sea, a November sea, 

 completely frozen over and with an iceberg frozen into it. The stars are 

 brilliant in the sky, while mountain, sea and shore are enshrouded in 

 rich orange light from a sun that is gradually receding. 



The Central Panel — Walrus Hunting in February. 



The east central panel represents a February scene on the ice of 

 Baffin Bay, which is never completely frozen over. The flaming colors 

 of the Aurora Borealis fill the sky and are reflected by the ice. In their 

 weird light is made visible the attack of an Innuit hunter upon a large 

 walrus, one of a group of three in the central foreground of the picture. 

 In the immediate foreground to the right a bull walrus is just emerging 

 from the water. There is no look of fear in the animal's dog-like eye, 

 since he has not yet caught sight of the hunter. 



In the Arctics the barking of walrus can be heard for miles. When 

 the Innuit hunter hears it, he may hitch six or eight dogs to his sledge 



