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AMNH: Floor 1, Section 7a.
The original iteration of the hall featured cases of ethnological exhibits on the Eastern Eskimo, Southampton Island Eskimo, Hudson Bay Eskimo, and Mackenzie River Eskimo with objects such as ceremonial masks, whalebone toboggins, stone-tipped arrows, harpoons, and coiled and woven baskets. This section also included exhibits on tribes of the Amur River in Siberia and the Ainu of Japan (5, 1904, p. 50).
The hall featured mannequin groups in cases, including one of an Eskimo woman cooking and another of an Eskimo woman fishing through ice. Outside the hall at the entrance to the Auditorium, were two related groups, including that of an igloo home scene of a woman cooking blubber over a sea oil lamp located under the Stokes mural Land of the Midnight Sun (5, 1911, p. 16-18). The material for the Eskimo Hall was exhibited within the Hall of Northwest Coast Indians until 1916, when it was relocated to the adjoining corridor (4, 1916, p. 87). The hall featured ivory objects collected by Peary, Comer, and MacMillan (5, 1919, p. 15). Before its renovation in the early 1960's, The hall also exhibited miniature models, including one of an Eskimo winter house in Cumberland Sound (5, 1953, p. 174-175).
When the hall reopened in 1965, it featured exhibits of tools, weapons, dependence on sea mammals, use of dogsleds, skin-covered boats, shamans, snow houses, blubber-burning lamps, caribou-skin clothing, bone and ivory implements, and children's games. It also included miniatures such as a Cooper Eskimo snow house (5, 1964, p. 18; 6, 1967; 2, 1972, p. 137-139). The hall closed between 1999 and 2000 and the LeFrak Theater (IMAX) Corridor opened in the same space in 2002 (7).
Collected objects for hall from expeditions (5, 1919, p. 15)
Expedition contributed objects to hall (4, 1919, p. 99)
Curator for hall during renovation (4, 1964/65, p. 28-29)
The Eskimo Hall began as a part of the Hall of Northwest Coast Indians
Funding for Stokes paintings exhibited in hall (4, 1906, p. 19)
Collected objects for hall from expeditions (5, 1919, p. 15)
Collected objects for hall from expeditions (5, 1919, p. 15)
Expedition collected objects for hall (4, 1919, p. 99)
Artist for mural paintings in hall (4, 1906, p. 19)
Curated digital images of permanent halls in the American Museum of Natural History Library, Digital Special Collections.