Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1908 — Eskimos Still Live In Stone Age. [ARTICLE]

Eskimos Still Live In Stone Age.

The Eskimos of Arctic Alaska are still in the stone age.. The manufacture of arrows and spear heads, from flint is a living industry. Stone lamps, stone hammers and chisels, and to some extent stone knives are still inordinary use among them. Fish lines and nets and bird snares are still made of whalebone, sinew and rawhide. Arrows spears, nets and traps are used in hunting, although improved breechloading arms are being introduced among them and will soon supersede, for the larger game, their own more primitive weapons.