WILD WHITE ESKIMOS

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 65, 9 December 1938, Page 3

WILD WHITE ESKIMOS

'l’nles of the Tnnnik or Tunnit —wild "white Eskimos,” so tough that they are believed to have exterminated themcelves by fighting one another when there was no one else to tight—were related by Colonel Paul C. Hunt, of the Pittsburgh Carnegie Museum Arctic Expedition, recently. These "tough guys of the Arctic,” traces of whom are thought to have been uncovered on Johnson Island of the Belcher group, gave the actual Eskimo inhabitants of the Arctic no little strife. But, said Colonel Hunt, the Eskimo strategy for overcoming these giants was to stalk and kill them while they were asleep, the favourite method being to drill a hole in the forehead with an awl. An almost legendary race, the Tunniks are thought to have sprung from Norsemen who visited the Far North before Columbus discovered America.