In the second exhibit, three south Greenland figures take the place of the family group, which could not he completed in time. They represent the Eskimo who inhabit Greenland, the shores of northern Labrador, and Hudson Bay adjoining. The figure at the right is that of a young woman of southwestern Greenland, her dress resembling that of a Lapp. Her people have been under instruction of Moravian missionaries for generations. The middle figure represents the native right-hand man of the intrepid whalers, who before the discovery of coal oil ransacked Hudson Bay for oil and baleen. The woman at the left is front Ungava Bay, and is dressed in aboriginal costume of reindeer fur, little, modified by outside influences. Her loose, roomy garments correspond with those figured by the early Voyagers. In her left hand she carries a large wooden plate, while the right is lifted to case the headband which passes around the forehead, sustaining the babe, held in the hood behind. The eastern Eskimo are especially interesting on account of their association with the exploring expeditions sent out in the last century to seareh for the northwest passage and the North Pole.
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