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MONTREAL - It was in the fall of 1897 that a 7-year-old Inuit boy named Minik was delivered to New York's American Museum of Natural History by the renowned Arctic adventurer Robert E. Peary. The youngster was accompanied by five other ''live Eskimo specimens,'' colorful in fur costume, who drew tens of thousands of gawkers in a day when explorers were super-celebrities and scrutiny of primitive societies all the rage...
Give Me My Father's Body : The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo - Amazon.Com Relevant Sites:
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