Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo18amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Fhotoyraijh by Morti'n 1'. I'or.sihl The face of tlie glacier Eqip Sermia, discharging into Disco Bay. —The rough cordilleran portion of the surface of this glacier indicates that the ice is afloat over the bottom of the bay tion. With Godhavn as a base, he is planning to explore and study Baffin Land as thoroughly as Greenland has already been investigated. Men of many countries besides Den- mark who have made this station their headquarters while they have been at work in Greenland, testify to the hos- pitality and courtesy extended to them by Herr Porsild and his good family. Among those who have stayed at the station at one time or another are Swedes, Norwegians, Germans, Swiss, Austrians, and Americans. Dr. Tho- rild WulfF. the celebrated Swedish eth- nologist and botanist who perished of starvation when with Rasmussen's ex- pedition across the ice cap of Greenland last year, has worked there. One of the first men trained at the station was Mr. Lauge Koch, the young Danish geolo- gist, who has apparently acquitted him- self so creditably with Rasmussen's expedition. Herr Porsild states that one of the most delightful guests he has entertained was Ossian Elgstrom, the Swedish artist and cartoonist, who spent the summer of 1915 in Greenland studying native art. The art of the Eskimo is primitive,
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I'kotoyraph by E. O. Eovey View of a part of Godhavn, showing the pastor's house and the church in the distance. —The Es- kimos are exceedingly faithful in their church attendance, but when the weather is favorable for hunt- ing the men usually do not observe Sunday. This photograph gives a good view of the Skarvefjeld, one of the commanding headlands along the .south coast of Disco Island. Tidal currents are so strong at the base of this headland that the sea ice there is rarely safe for sledge travel and a detour must be made over the highland back of the mountain 586

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