Northwest History. Alaska. Eskimos.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1920
• Subjects: "Blond" Eskimo; Nome; Alaska; Apuktawana; Vilhjalmur Stefansson; Canadian explorer; Coronation gulf; Joe Bernard; the states; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Pacific; Lone; Stefansson; Coronation Gulf; eskimo*
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/90776

"Blond" Eskimo Have Brown Hair: Stefansson's New Tribe Really Not Very Different From Others. "BLOND" ESKIMO HAVE BROWN HAIR Stefansson's New Tribe Really Not Very Different From Others. (Correspondence of the Associated Press,) NOME, Alaska, Nov. 20.—Apuktawana, a lone male member of the far northern mysterious tribe of "Blond Eskimos," the discovery of wbjeh has been credited to Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Canadian explorer, recently was brought by traders' to Nome from his home on the southern shores of Coronation gulf, located on Canada's northern rim. Nome residents thought that only in his dress did he differ from the Eskimo of this region. Joe Bernard, Nome trader, who brought the "blond" Eskimo out, said he intended to take him to the states to show outsiders what sort of people the strange Eskimos are. The native was of stout build, with copper colored skin, straight black hair and dark brown eyes. Bernard said he was an average example of the males of the "blond" tribe. Some members of the tribe, Bernard asserted, have reddish brown hair and light eyes. They are scarcely light enough, however, he thinks, to be described as blond. It was recalled here, when Apuktawana arrived, that Stefansson never described the tribe as "blond" and always said newspaper men in the h^myaterfous triW the name. Stefansson's description was similar to that of Bernard's.