Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo18amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Me-giss'oo and Shoo-eging-wah are playing with their pet dogs in tlie July sun at Etali. In the summer months, on days when the wind is not too strong, Eskimo mothers give their babies sun baths on bear or deerskins stretched on the ground. Needless to say the little people like it, and con- tinue to like it until they are quite big boys and girls. Eskimo children are inured to relatively low temperatures, and the igloo with its seal-oil lamp is so warm, even when the weather is bitterest outside, that they play about without their fur clothing. In summer they are glad indeed to cast aside the fur while they play back and forth within the toopik and out into the sunshine the hood. A bal)_v must havL' to eliug to its mother like a cat or a monkey, for the mother seems to talve ahnost any kind of exercise and to bend down to the ground freely without ever spilling out the child. One cold morning Ahng- ma-lok-to and his wife arrived at Ip- soo-i-sook after two days of sledging from Cape York. The latter s hood looked large and heavy, and on exami- nation I found that it contained a na- 364 ked baby only a few weeks old. Eskimo babies begin to travel young, and with- out much reference to temperature. I asked Ahng-ma-lok-to where they had spent the night and I learned that he had built a snow igloo for shelter at Sook-koon, ten or twelve miles south of the ship. Soon after Christmas, 1916. Ah-wee- ah-good-loo, although but fourteen years old. presented her husband with a son

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