The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-01-21
PEOPLE FROM
THE F AR
NORTH
NOW cAMPEp AT THE ARMoRY
IN OGDEN.
Peculiar Habits Of the Esquimo in His
Arctic Home-OId People Arc
Put to Death.

Probably the most instructive as
we'll as interesting exhibition ever
brought to the city is the Eskimo VII
lsge which opened at the Armory,
Wednesday evening. The exhibit is
under the management of \. M. Ba-
ber who secured the Tskimo conces-
sion at the Yukon fair to be held at
Seattle in the fall and went TO far-off
Siberia for the exhibit. MI Baber and
his wife spent three years at East
Cape, Siberia. the latter being the first
white woman to ever enter that re-
gion. They speak the Eskimo
language and have many highly enter
tanning things to relate of their eX-
perience.
The exhibit consists of some 35 men,
women and children, together with
their entire household effects, houses
and all They eat sleep and live as IL
in their native land. burning their
seal-oil lamps, playing at games, and
engaging In native tasks such as
fancy work and the making of clothing.
One of the men speaks English with
great readiness, while all have begun
to pick up the white mans tongue to a
considerable extent. Even the chill
dren-little tots in fur swaddlings-
surprise their elders as we'll as their
white friends almot daily with new
ly acquired word which their tiny
minds have grasped out of the conver-
sation about them. The official In
tcrpreter. William Bissner. has spent
seven years In the frozen wilds from
whence these people come and knows
their ways probably better than any
white man living
Their native huts are wonders in an
architectural way, being built on the
plan of the triangular arch. and though
but Of drift wood and reindeer skin,
readily withstand the fierce destruct-
i've gales of the Arctic which frequent
ly. attain velocity Of from GO to SO
miles an hour The hutsnhave abso-
lutely no ventilation, nature providing
them with seal, walrus and whale oil,
which. when burned In their curious
stone lamps, revitalizes the air, accord
ing to good authority The oil and
moss flame Is their only heating and
lighting. and they eat only fresh meat.
The hundreds Of interesting and in
structive things on exhibition include
ings more than forty feet long and
| nearly as wide; nets for catching
seals. duck-skin clothing from st. Law
renee Bay, where animals are scarce
condition which threatens the en-
tire Arctic region; native sledges with
ivory runners, steel being imprac'
ticable in the intense cold; blubber
hooks; ice skimmers, fish nets; pelts
of polar bears that weighed ton in
life, duck-scalp mats; wonderful skin
embroidery and other needle work
belts of caribou lower-jaws represent
ing from 200 to 300 animals IN each :
reindeer-skin boats and kiacks; dogs
and sledges; native harpoons and the
! white mans harpoon gun, whale-fip
per snow Shovels waterproof cloth
Ing of walrus gut; skins of the saddle
back, brown. fur, leopard. cross and
hair seals; seal drags for recovering
sunken seals; snow glasses. etc, Above
all-thirty-five men, women and chill
dren In arms from country the ma
jority of mankind Will never see, q
| land of perpetual solitude and the
midnight sun" The Esquimo hang
their elders when the latter are toe
old to care for themselves. Race-sui
eide is unknown. -