. Alaska ... Natural history; Scientific expeditions. io4 JOHN BURROUGHS Some of the younger women were fairly good looking and their fur hoods and fur cloaks became them well. I no- ticed that the babies cried very much, as at home. Most of the women were dressed in hair seal or reindeer skins, but some wore an outer garment of colored cotton cloth, hanging loosely to the knees. It was interesting to see them tuck their babies under this garment from the rear. The mother would bend for- ward very low, thrust the child under the garment at her hips and by a dexterous wriggling movement of her
. Alaska ... Natural history; Scientific expeditions. io4 JOHN BURROUGHS Some of the younger women were fairly good looking and their fur hoods and fur cloaks became them well. I no- ticed that the babies cried very much, as at home. Most of the women were dressed in hair seal or reindeer skins, but some wore an outer garment of colored cotton cloth, hanging loosely to the knees. It was interesting to see them tuck their babies under this garment from the rear. The mother would bend for- ward very low, thrust the child under the garment at her hips and by a dexterous wriggling movement of her body propel it forward till its head protruded in its place above her shoulder. One marked its course along her back as he does a big morsel down a chicken's gullet. Some of the captains of the whalers came aboard our ship to advise us about tak- ing water. They were large, powerful, resolute looking men, quite equal, one would say, to the task before them. Water was to be procured from a stream that ran in from the tun- dra on the south- ern shore of the bay about a doz- en miles distant. Leaving part of our company to visit the whalers and the Eskimo, the ship steamed away with the rest of us for €*§» wSm 121 m\ roM mm HP©*^ ____/&£ KSt if«P j^"^fj*,' IferJ mMgMifi fa ggi r^^m ~~-«£-. SB ^-"'ifeft'W SI &MJ ii^ u mim 111 ESKIMO MAN, WOMAN, AND CHILD, PORT CLARENCE, PORT CLARENCE Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899); Harriman, Edward Henry, 1848-1909; Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942; Washington Academy of Sciences (Washington, D. C. ). New York, Doubleday, Page & Company
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