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Study of an Eskimo, c1917, (1928). Artist: Knud Johan Victor RasmussenStudy of an Eskimo, c1917, (1928). Originally from The People of the Polar North by Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen (1879-1933), Danish polar explorer and anthropologist
Eskimo About To Spear A Seal Through Its Breathing-Hole, c1927, (1928). Artist: Henry EvisonEskimo About To Spear A Seal Through Its Breathing-Hole, c1927, (1928). From The Book of Polar Exploration, by E. L. Elias M.A. [George G. Harrap & Company Ltd, London, 1928]
Mongol Race, Lapps and Esquimaux, 19th century. Artist: A PortierMongol Race, Lapps and Esquimaux, 19th century. Swedish Lapps, Norwegian Lapps, Esquimaux from Victoria Lane, Esquimaux from Cape Barrow
Eskimo hunter and his wife in winter costume, c1922. Artist: Brown BrosEskimo hunter and his wife in winter costume, c1922. A print from Peoples of all Nations, Volume III, edited by JA Hammerton, The Fleetway House, London, c1922
Eskimo kayak, 1590 (1956). A boat crewed by Europeans, fighting off an attack by eskimos armed with bows and arrows. A print from Things, a volume about the origin and early history of many things
Eskimos, Greenland. Artist: Underwood & UnderwoodEskimos, Greenland. Stereoscopic card detail
Eskimos, Nothern Greenland, 1904. Artist: Underwood & UnderwoodEskimos, Nothern Greenland, 1904. Stereoscopic card. Detail. From a series called Descriptive Bulletin No. 3
Poyettak, Kakikagiu, Aknalua, early 19th century. Artist: John BrandardPoyettak, Kakikagiu, Aknalua, early 19th century. Indigenous people of the Arctic Circle, possibly from North America or Siberia
Mongol Race, Lapps and Esquimaux, 1800-1900. Artist: A PortierMongol Race, Lapps and Esquimaux, 1800-1900. The Mongols were nomadic people who raise animals by pasturing and produce everything they need from animals
Ethnology, Races of Man, 1800-1900. Artist: R AndersonEthnology, Races of Man, 1800-1900. Engraving to show the Asiatic and European Races: Japanese, Kalmuck Woman, Chinese Mandarin, Esquimaux, Thibetan, Samoied, Hungarian Magyar, Norwegian Lapp
Igloos and Eskimos, 1820-1876. Artist: George SandIgloos and Eskimos, 1820-1876. George Sand was the pseudonym of the French novelist and feminist Amandine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant (1804-1876)
The Seal and the Walrus, c1850. Artist: Benjamin Waterhouse HawkinsThe Seal and the Walrus, c1850. Around the central illustration of the animals are vignettes of hunting and uses the to which their carcasses were put
Large Knife from grave at Southampton Island, for cutting whale-blubber, Inuit
Inuit wooden mask of a fish and its spirit
Western inuit bronze adze haft
Western inuit wooden mask, 19th centuryWestern inuit wooden mask, North American. From the British Museums collection, 19th century
Inuit arrowshaft straightenerWestern Inuit ivory arrowshaft straightener, engraved with a scene of shamanism or hunting magic; North American. From the British Museums collection
Ivory arrow straightener in the form of a bear with engraved pictographs, North American. From the British Museums collection
Inuit carving of a human figure, 19th centuryWestern Inuit ivory carving of a human figure, probably a shamans charm. From the British Museums collection, 19th century
Carving of an Inuit whale-hunt on an ivory snow-knife, 19th centuryCarving of a Western Inuit whale-hunt on an ivory snow-knife made from walrus tusk. From the British Museums collection, 19th century
Inuit hunting sceneWestern Inuit hunting scene engraved on a walrus tusk, from the British Museums collection
The search for the 1897 Andree expedition to the North Pole. In 1897 a Swedish explorer named Salomon Andree made an attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon
Inuit Strap Drill for making fire from Western Alaska. Eskimo
Eskimo Carving, Young Seal, 18th-19th century. British Museum. Western Eskimo
Eskimo Carving
Eskimo Carving, Ivory Tobacco Pipes, Alaska and Canada, 19th Century. Tobacco was an important commodity to the Inuit who varved ivory pipes they traded with whalers for English and American tobacco
Inuit Wood hunting cap with ivory ornament collected during Cooks 3rd voyage, 1776-1780. James Cooks third and final voyage took the route from Plymouth via Cape Town and Tenerife to New Zealand
Inuit, Polar Eskimo or Inughuit, Womans knife in Bone and steel
Walrus Hunt, detail of carving on Eskimo snow-knife, walrus ivory, 19th century. Western Eskimo. British Museum. London
Eskimo Scene Detail of engraved walrus tusk, Western Eskimo. 19th Century. British Museum, London