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A stinging wind sweeps across an igloo at the edge of a tiny spruce grove in starving Padlei. Besides famine, the people face a shortage of wood for heating and cooking. The remaining small stands of timber, it is estimated, will last another 15 years,
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AT STARVATION CAMP, Pipkaknak enters igloo with a dead fox. Be
cause of low pelt price, he makes few trips to traps, to save the dogs.
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INAMINE had struck the Padlei
miuts, an Eskimo tribe. In their
annual migrations the caribou had'
by-passed these “people of the
willow thickets, - ’ who live in the
vicinity of the Hudson Bay com-
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THE FACE of famine. Her skin is
loose, but she does not complain.
pany’s Padlei post in the Canadian
Far North. These hungry nomads
had no food or new - clothing. Even
the dogs died of hunger. A Padlei
family of four children and eight
to 10 dogs’must havVi 300 caribou
a year for proper nourishmeht.
On his latest trip to the Arctic,
Canada’s outstanding documentary
photographer, Richard Harrington,
traveled by dog team to witness
and record on film the harrowing
story of famine. In his book. The
Face of the Arctic, he graphically
illustrates the plight of the Padlei
miuts. The pictures on this page
were made to show, in his words,
“The strength, endurance, courage
and ingenuity of an almost ex
hausted people. - ’
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THIS FAMILY lives in a filthy shack in famine land. The man has shaped a fiddle from a bacon tin, a
branch and caribou sinew. Most people depend on slim “Destitute Allowance,” similar to U. S. “relief.”
Photos Copyright, 1952, by Henry Schuman, Inc., Distributed by King Features Syndicate <».
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A PADLEIMIUT WOMAN in child labor at starvation camp gives evi- of famine. Weak as they are from hunger, Eskimos often travel 30 I
dence of the constant struggle between life and death in the middle or more miles on foot searching for caribou’ They ea» uncooked flour. 5 :
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A PIECE of caribou skin is given child to eat after food supply has 1
appeared. Skins that had served as ground-covers were fed to the dog» ■
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