Nanook and His Contemporaries: Imagining Eskimos in American Culture, 1897-1922
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Author/Creator
Shari M. Huhndorf
Critical Inquiry, vol. 27, no. 1, Autumn, 2000, pp. 122-148
Description
Describes how the arrival of six Inuit individuals in New York City in 1897 accompanied by explorer Robert Perry increased the public interest in, "Eskimos."