Word: eskimo
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Their estimated ages range from 1000 B.C. to the 19th century. There are glaring ritual masks, delicate canoe figureheads, ornate fly whisks and chieftains' necklaces. A fetish from the Congo bristles with nails that were driven into it to transmit pain to a human foe. A tiny ivory Eskimo looks as if it might have been carved by Henry Moore; a clay Mexican bowl from the days before Christ bears the withered countenance of a fierce old crone; a majestic "ancestral figure" from New Ireland (near New Guinea) possesses the beard of a man and the breasts...
...Ryan), an honest Norwegian salmon fisherman, until ruthless Zeb Kennedy (Richard Burton), a drifting Irishman who is Ryan's best friend, purloins her affections. In Malemute anguish, Ryan harnesses his huskies and mushes off into the Arctic where, to assuage his grief, he sires a son by an Eskimo maiden. In the meantime, the caddish Burton has ditched Actress Jones, a mere hotelkeeper's daughter, and married a millionaire's cold-faced daughter (Martha Hyer), who bears him a baby girl...
John Gunther's High Road (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). Frosted Jack goes north of the Arctic Circle, watches an Eskimo infant grow to manhood...
...stories, vintage of '35: here we use "Eskimo π," numerical value 3,0000, somewhat smaller than elsewhere because of cold-weather contraction...
Today half of Cape Dorset's income derives from the sale of art works. This is just the way Jim Houston intended it. Not even Cape Dorset will remain in violate forever; sooner or later it will be drawn into the modern world where other Eskimos have fared so poorly. Says Hous ton: "Their art is the one thing that can preserve their pride in their Eskimo identity. So long as their art remains true and vital and coveted by the outside world, they will be saved from hopeless apathy in the face of the onslaught of the almighty...