"Eskimo Stories", by Mary E. Smith, illustrated by Howard V. Brown, published by Rand McNally, 1930. Special school edition with "A Pronouncing Index" and "Suggestions to Teachers".

Hard boards with original illustrated cloth (some wear, especially spine ends and board edges); 6" x 7.3/4"; 189 pages, ex-library book with red stamp on the title page and slightly damaged endpapers, one page is missing and one page is missing a part of corner with part of text, some soiling, good reading copy.

"From the Introduction--

Observation teaches that the growth and happiness of a child are dependent upon the quality and variety of his experiences. ...An acquaintance with the life and environment of primitive man seems particularly useful to the child during his early school years. The necessity for food, shelter, and clothing forces man into the struggle for existence, ....The child recognizes this necessity, his own most conscious desires arising from nature's first demands...In primitive life the process from demand to supply are sufficiently few and simple for the immature mind to follow and consider somewhat intelligently, as to the wisdom or unwisdom of the methods used in production. The habit of seeing things "from beginning to end" grows into the power to see "the end from the beginning." ...
To unify and to avoid the confusion arising from contradictory impressions, the stories are limited in their portrayal of life and nature to one locality. In order that the children may become familiar with the people, the land, and the animals, there are repeated and varied presentations of the same facts....
It is hardly possible that he will fail to compare the conditions under which these people exist with his own environment, and through the comparison be led to a consideration of economic values, obtaining thereby an increased respect of the dignity of labor, and greater appreciation of its hard-wrought products.....

How Ikwa made a Stove..
Once Ikwa took a flat stone. He worked upon it hard and long.He ground and chipped the stone with a sharp tool, until at last it was hollow. Ikwa was glad, and took the hollow stone into his hut. He poured oil into it. Mane brought some moss. She put the moss into the oil. Then Ikwa struck two stones together. This made sparks of fire, which lit the moss. It blazed up...."

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