The American Museum journal (c1900-(1918)) (17972132320)

Title: The American Museum journal

Identifier: americanmuseumjo09amer (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

Text Appearing Before Image:

212 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL

Text Appearing After Image:

ESKIMO GODDESS OF THE SUN. From the painting on the North Wall. Copyright 1908 hy Frank Wilbert Stokes. Courtesy of Scrib'ner's Magazine. ina(le(;uacv of i)io;ment.s, in well suggesting "the utmost splendor of li2:ht that blazes in the Polar skies and glows in the Polar, tranluscent ice." The North Wall. The largest picture of the series — in ftill view from the main foyer of the Museum — is a continuous panorama sixty feet long. It is intense and realistic in its coloring. In the center the glow^ of a mid- night sun illuminates promontories and sea, toward the right this bril- liant color gradually fades to the gray and purple of the twalight that precedes the long Arctic night, while toward the left it changes to the white lights and deep blue shadows of that other twilight that foretells the approach of the long Arctic day. Against the vivid gold and red of the center of the painting is por- trayed the artist's conception of the Eskimo myth of the " Sim and the Moon." There is presented a giant mirage of two figures in full pursuit through the air. These figures are Ahn-ing-ah-neh, a hunter, typifying

inuit mythology solar deities the american museum journal 1909 book illustrations natural history american museum of natural history images from internet archive

1909

American Museum of Natural History Library

http://commons.wikimedia.org/

public domain