Lot 1310: CHILDREN EDUCATION POSTER WALRUS HUNT BESS BRUCE

Original vintage educational educational poster for children featuring a collage style illustrative panel by the American artist Bess Bruce (1876-1966) depicting a group of Eskimo hunting a walrus while two other Eskimo are approaching in their canoes. Published by the Harter Publishing. Good condition, folded as issued, pinholes and minor tears in corners. County: USA, year of printing:1930s, designer: Bess Bruce, size (cm): 30.5x91.5 (Horizontal). Bess Bruce Cleaveland (1876-1966) was born in Washington Court House, Ohio. She studied art at the Art Students League & Pratt Institute in New York, graduating in 1901. After teaching art for six years, Cleaveland turned to illustrating books, teacher's magazines, and other commercial art projects. Cleaveland worked in ink and watercolor. Children and animals were her favorite subjects. In addition to drawing most of the cats and dogs in Washington Court House, she visited zoos to study and sketch wild animals. Her backyard garden attracted birds, squirrels and rabbits, all of which she sketched. She illustrated the children's book Windmills and Wooden Shoes by Maude Grant, published in 1920. Eskimo or Eskimos are the indigenous peoples who have traditionally inhabited the northern circumpolar region from eastern Siberia (Russia) to across Alaska (of the United States), Canada, and Greenland. The two main peoples known as "Eskimo" are: (1) the Alaskan Iñupiat peoples, Greenlandic Inuit, and the mass-grouping Inuit peoples of Canada, and (2) the Yupik of eastern Siberia and Alaska. The Yupik comprise speakers of four distinct Yupik languages: one used in the Russian Far East and the others among people of Western Alaska, Southcentral Alaska and along the Gulf of Alaska coast. A third northern group, the Aleut, is closely related to these two. They share a relatively recent common ancestor, and a language group (Eskimo-Aleut). The word Eskimo derives from phrases that Algonquin tribes used for their northern neighbors. The Inuit and Yupik peoples consider the word "Eskimo" to be offensive and generally do not use it to refer to themselves, preferring to refer to themselves as "Inuit". The governments in Canada and Greenland have ceased using it in official documents.