Natives of Alaska - Malemiut "Indians"
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.3106 C 4
label: Local Note
content: Stereoscopic photograph, probably by Cross, Hot Springs, South Dakota. No date.
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
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content: Cross
creator: label: Creator
content: Cross
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo -- Malemuit
label: Culture
content: Arctic peoples
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Subarctic
label: Culture
content: Eskimos
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / Cross
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content: 1 Photograph (4x6 in)
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Photographs
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content: Photographs
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content: Group of women and children, showing large dog in foreground, child holding puppy.

Account on back of stereoscopic photo. We frequently see published statements to the effect that the aborigines are rapidly disappearing, but the scene here depicted contradicts such an assertion. The eleven youthful Esquimaux who make up the little company in the foreground do not appear to be dissatisfied with existing conditions, nor discouraged at future prospects. They are fairly well clothed and evidently have not recently felt the pangs of hunger. Their youthful games and playthings are simple in character, but these little people extract quite as much enjoyment from them as do our more favored children in civilization, surrounded by the comforts and advantages of the modern nursery and kindergarten. The little Esquimaux have never seen a kitten for none was ever in that section of Alaska, but its place is well filled by the baby dog, which consists chiefly of a bundle of the downiest kind of fur, bright eyes and a playful disposition. In the background is a representation of one of those native sod houses which served as a habitation for the pioneer Russian and American as well as for the more advanced of the native Esquimaux. Many of these Indians now live in tents,and have otherwise adopted the costumes and customs of Americans." (no date) -- John P. Clum, U.S.P.O Inspector and Lecturer Copyright. by B. L. Singley.