The American Museum journal (c1900-(1918)) (17973644959)

Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo07amer (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



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HOVF.Y, THE FOYER METEORITES 23 THE CAPE YORK METEORITES, "Ahnighito," or "The Tent," The Woman" and "The Dog." (Siderites.) For centuries, and perhaps for thousands of years, the three masses of iron known as the Cape York meteorites lay on the north coast of Melville Bay near Cape York, Greenland, but they were seen for the first time by a white person, when they were visited by Commander Robert E. Peary, U. S. N., in 1894 and 1895 under the guidance of Tallakoteah, a member of the Eskimo tribe which up to the early part
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CAPE YORK. "The Dog". Weighs 1100 pounds. of the nineteenth century had obtained material for knives and other utensils from the masses. The three meteorites were known as a group to the Eskimo under the