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Artisit's note on verso describing the eskimo's tent and costume: 'Lively or Godhaven, Disco, 14 July 1875 ... Esquimaux woman and boy, sketch in a hunting igloo, or hut, near Lively Disco - the hunting hut is a seal-skin tent on a circular wall of sods and stones - the ordinary igloo is made entirely of sods and stones with a long covered entrance. In the population of 96 there are very few pure Eskimos, almost all show traces of Danish blood and the odd Dutch element is not entirely eradicated - the women dress in bright picturesque colours. A short quilted jacket trimmed with dog fur and generally made of twisted calico is the only garmet of European materials - nearly everything else is made of seal skin, short seal skin breeches with hair on each to just above the knee ...' |