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ESKIMO, ESKIMOS or ESQUIMAUX (a corruption of the Abnaki Indian Eskimantsic or the Ojibway Ashkimeq, both terms meaning " those who eat raw flesh": they call themselves " Innuit," " the people "), a North American Indian people, inhabiting the arctic coast of ...

... black, while flakes of slate find a use when mounted as skinning-knives by the Eskimo. Now that the narrower conception of archaeology as a minor branch of classical studies has been given up, the new science has gradually won its way to universal recognition ...

... hina exhibited a handkerchief of " salamander's wool," or linum asbesli. By the Eskimos of Labrador asbestos has been used as a lamp- wick, and it received a similar application in some of the sacred lamps of antiquity. In recent times asbestos has been applie ...

... rm tunnels under or in the ice these may become more or less filled ESKILSTUNA— ESKIMO with wmsh, and when the ice melts the aggraded channels appear as long ridges of gravel and sand known as esters. It has been thought that similar ridges are sometimes forme ...

... h differentiated in many ways from the true Mongol, the American races from the Eskimo to the Fuegians must be reckoned in the Yellow division of mankind. 3. Negroid or Black Man is primarily represented by the Negro of Africa between the Sahara and the Cape d ...

... the recoil of the bow-string. Similar wristlets or bracers are in use among the Eskimos (of bone) and in India (of ivory) . These plates measure generally about 4 in. by 15 in. 2. Bronze Age. — It is impossible to assign any date as the beginning of the Bronze ...

... s of modern times are adepts in ventriloquism, as the Zulus, the Maoris and the Eskimos. It is well known in Hindustan and China, where it is practised by travelling magicians. See De la Chapelle, Le Ventriloque, ou I'engastrimythe (London, 1772); E. Schultz, ...