Word: offing
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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The great Serpent Mound of Ohio, which has long been a subject of study and research for American archaeologists, has been given by the Corporation to the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society. The mound has been in the possession of the Peabody Museum ever since 1886, when it was...
Mr. John Murdoch lectured before the Anthropological Society last night in the Peabody Museum, on the "Arts and Customs of the Point Barrow Eskimos." A few years ago Mr. Murdoch was a member of the United States meteorological station established on Point Barrow at the north-westerly extremity of Alaska...
In winter the temperature there ranges, on the average, about 28 degrees below zero; while at times it is as low as 50 degrees. The sun is below the horizon for seventy-two days in the year. The temperature in summer sometimes rises to 60 or 65 degrees and during...
The people themselves are much like the Greenland Eskimos in appearance and physique. Both men and women wear the ordinary hooded frocks that one sees in pictures of them. The men wear knee breeches and high kneebooks both made of reindeer skin. The women wear long trousers of the same...
The tribes live together in small villages along the coast, which are composed of houses, each shared by two families. The houses themselves are constructed of driftwood and are covered with a thick layer of turf to render them air-tight. The entrance to these houses is an underground tunnel...