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Monday, December 31. 2012

Eskimos

You always wondered where Eskimos went to the toilet:



You always wondered about Reindeer and sleds:



More old Eskimo pics here, from before the Welfare and snowmobile era. What I have always wondered is why they never moved further south..

Posted by Bird Dog in Our Essays, The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 16:05 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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You always wondered where Eskimos went to the toilet.

I suppose the walls help keep the dogs away. The dogs like shit are good at keeping it cleaned up.
#1 chuck on 2012-12-31 16:05 (Reply)
Why didn't they move south? I'd conjecture the extreme environment probably kept the riff raff away.
#2 The Real Old Salt on 2012-12-31 19:16 (Reply)
I suppose they didn't move south because once you've adapted, it's a pain in the butt to adapt again.
Hence the fear of AGW!!
#3 Bulldog on 2012-12-31 20:45 (Reply)
Eskimos did move south in Alaska until they reached the pacific ocean. There became a split between the northern Eskimos who stayed up north to hunt seals and whales to become the Alaskan inuipiq and the Canadian inuit. The other Eskimos who moved further south became fishermen and lived in southwestern Alaska and the chugatch of prince william sound, Alaska. Then they encountered the Indian tribes and couldn't go any further south.
#4 Sam Goodman on 2012-12-31 22:09 (Reply)
How to build an igloo.

http://sippicancottage.blogspot.com/2012/12/i-figured-id-better-brush-up-on-my.html
#5 Roy Lofquist on 2013-01-01 10:39 (Reply)
Probably these folks, is why the eskimo were there in the first place --and stayed there --large tribe, big totem poles.

Good thing mankind has such a cussed nature --it meant that no weather, pestilence, war, or other catastrophe could end the human race, as every tribe was always racing to get as far away from the neighbors as possible --

http://www.bing.com/search?q=kwaikiutl+weapons+pictures&form=IE8SRC&src=IE-SearchBox
#6 buddy larsen on 2013-01-01 12:46 (Reply)
Most of them did. As was said above, only the ornery ones stayed. Probably didn't want to go south with their mother in-laws.

To answer a question with a question, do you live in Florida or Hawaii? If not, why not? I do. We try and send all you northerners back north every chance we get but you keep on coming down and filling up paradise. Go figure.
#7 Larry Geiger on 2013-01-02 13:00 (Reply)
I lived in Kotzebue, Alaska from 1990-1991. I worked at the little 20 bed hospital (Manilaaq Medical Center). Interesting to see pictures from the past. There was a neat little museum there called "NANA Museum of the Arctic. I loved to go and see the old skin boats, native Inupiat artwork, and listen to their lectures. But I am a Southern Bell, and WAAAYY prefer my sunny South and southern food than the dark Arctic winters with muktuk and seal oil.
#8 shirley j on 2013-01-03 10:52 (Reply)

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