Polar Pathways: Robert E. Peary's Arctic Expeditions
1906- Musk-Ox Repast
The remains of a musk-ox feast
“The tent was pitched as soon as it came up, then a circular wind-guard was built of snow blocks, the meat and bones dragged close to it, the skins spread inside, a tiny fire started with some willow twigs gathered in the vicinity, and helped out by pieces of a sledge; then my Eskimos sat themselves round and with occasional brief winks of sleep ate continuously for nearly two days and nights. I did my share too, and at the end of the time the pile of cleaned bones about the shelter was almost beyond belief. When I use the word cleaned I use it in the fullest sense.” - Robert E. Peary in Nearest the Pole, published in 1907
"Musk-oxen down", Peary-Macmillan Arctic Museum Collections
