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Excerpt from The Graphic Art of the Eskimos: Based Upon the Collections in the National Museum The Innuit or Eskimo Of Alaska utilize the tusks Of the walrus, and in occasional instances the horns of the reindeer. The tusks are cut longitudinally into rods, upon the faces of which delicate engravings or etchings are made, the depressions or incisions thus produced being filled with black or some other color so as to heighten the effect. The Eskimo Of Greenland, Labrador, and the remaining portions of the Arctic regions east of the delta of the Mackenzie River, use at pieces Of wood upon which to exercise their more primitive skill at art ornamentation. Although ivory is abundant in some portions Of the Melville Peninsula, yet it appears generally absent in the collections from that region. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.