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Inuit
Young Alaskan Inuit
traditional semisubterranean dwelling of North American Arctic and subarctic peoples
Inuit family
kayak
Inuit
igluvigaq being built
Eskimo man with a large handheld drum made of walrus stomach or bladder, Nunivak Island, 1929.
walrus ivory shaman figure
painted wooden mask
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Nansen, Fridtjof
Fridtjof Nansen
Norwegian explorer and scientist