The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-11-25

North" he added. There is a company of some 100 people who are shooting the scenes for The Eskimo with Ray Wise, Alaska born Eskimo and white, as leading man. The story depicts the Es- kimos as they lived prior to the coming of the whites.
 At the outset the language used in the play was English but the absurdity of that was soon evil dent. So, MT. Wise instructed his fellow actors in Eskimo and all of the sound will be in that tongue. Transactions in English, French and ether languages will appear on the screen, depending on the country in which it is shown, MT. Hawkes. worth said.
 The filming and recording was practically completed last month and the company was waiting for real winter weather to set in to shoot the winter scenes. It will then come south.
 St, Lawrence is Unique St. Lawrence Island Eskimos are unique in that they have real sum- mer homes as well as their igloo habitations for the winter. In the former they have everything mod ern-radios, electric lights phono- graphs, overstuffed furiture and many up-to-date household ap- pliances. But when winter comes, they close these homes and move back to the igloos that are almost as primitively equipped as they were before the advent of the white man.
 The village at St. Paul, where the United States Bureau of Fish cries is the landlord, is as up-to- date as any to be found in any land. 'It has the finest small school plant I have ever seen," commented MT. Tawkesworth.
 Conditions About Normal
 Conditions among the northern Eskimos and along the coast, ac- cording to him, are about normal. There was no serious deprivation or want discernable anywhere. Stories of suffering and want were not confirmed by investigation.
 Ivory carving is more than or dinarily in evidence. The current demand for carved ivory bracelets is so heavy that the carvers are rot able to keep pace with it.
 Eskimos Remember Dr. Jackson
 The ESkimos, the worlds largest reindeer owners, gratefully remem- Der Dr. Sheldon Jackson, mission ary and Government agent, who was responsible for the introduc- tion of reindeer in Eskimo-land When inquiries were made last summer about the possibility of obtaining deer meat for unemploy- ment relief in Southeast Alaska, owners of Vikilin and Cape Prince cf Wales immediately offered to contribute the deer if the cost of killing was defrayed
 Representatives of these people l said: Because Dr. Jackson saw our great need 73 years ago, we gre glad to do something for oth- CTS who now need food The deer were brought south on the motorship North Star which ar rived here last Tuesday.
 Seal Mgriation Late The Fall migration of the seal herds from the Pribilof Islands scuthward is late this year. When
 the North Star left St. Paul Island
 on November 5, the waters there
 were black with the mammals
 hundreds of thousands of them
 cavorting off the beaches where
 they have their summer harems
 Usually, they have left for warm
 CT climates weeks before that date MT. Hawkesworth commendeC
 highly the work being done in tn,
 north by. medical and dental off cers of the Coast Guard Service
 Dr. Bingman, physician on the cut ter Northland, has been takin
 hundreds of blood tests as ia north as Point Barrow, and tn dentist on the same vessel ha been giving treatment to as man Of the natives as possible. Covered 4,190 Miles On his journey, MT. Hawkeswortl covered 4.l90 miles. He left her, in August with Gov. Parks to at tend the annual meeting of tn, Reindeer Advisory Council at Nome going by plane there from Fair banks. After that meeting wa over MT. HawkeSworth went bl plane to Kotzebue Sound where ht joined the North Star and pro. T |