THE ESKIMO GROUP 
The following extract from an article published in the 
Washington POST for March 2, 1908, will suggest the fruition 
of this and other plans submitted: 
’’Professor W. E. Holmes has .lust completed and installed 
within the Rational Museum three magnificent ethnological groups 
portraying, in the most realistic manner, the life of three 
distinct tribes of aborigines; namely, the Eskimos, of Cape 
York, Greenland; the gigantic Tuelches, of Tierra del Puego, 
South America; and the Mojave Indians, of the mouth of the Colo¬ 
rado River, in Arizona. The figures are placed in large glass 
cases, and are life size. They were modeled by Prof. Holmes 
from measurements, photographs, and descriptions gathered by 
Lieut. Peary, Mr. Hatcher, and Prof. McGee in the regions in¬ 
habited by the tribes represented. People who have visited the 
museum lately are unanimous in pronouncing the Eskimo group the 
finest work of the kind ever attempted. 
’’The floor of the last named case is made in imitation 
of a snow and ice covered lake-front, with a portion of the 
frozen lake imitated in glass. Beginning at the left of the 
case is an Eskimo sledge, to which four Eskimo dogs are hitched. 
’’The skins of these dogs were received direct from Peary, 
and were stuffed and mounted in the case by the museum taxider¬ 
mist, who has shown exquisite taste and skill in arranging the 
animals in natural and life-like attitudes. One of the dogs 
is aeLeep, another has his nose on the ground, as though scenting 
something, while the others, with ears erect, are intently 
