They also provided a commercial export outlet for hides obtained by the Eskimos. White explorers, whalers, sealers, and traders in the Arctic often killed polar bears with high-powered rifles. The meat was eaten and the hides used for clothing and bedding. Reeves, in Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences (Third Edition), 2019 Polar BearĮskimos traditionally hunted polar bears using dog teams and hand lances. Some historians say that most of the inventions were made 20,000 years back during the Stone Age by the natives of middle Asia and Europe. Though according to some historians these inventions were made by their ancestors, but the Eskimos made necessary additions and improvements in them. Therefore, Eskimos are called unique inventors.
In this way, they made many inventions to overcome the conditions. In the absence of cotton, silk, or wool, they made clothes from the skins of animals and used the needle and thread made from the bone and organs of the seal. Made arms from the bones of animals due to lack of knowledge about metals. To satiate their hunger due to the impossibility of agriculture, they used meat. They used the fat of seal for lightning their lamp and invented sledge to travel on the ice. Due to the scarcity of wood in their environment, they used ice to make their houses. Neloy Khare, Rajni Khare, in The Arctic, 2021 8 The expert inventersĮskimos are exemplary of survival under extreme conditions and winners.
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