james laverance Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 Found this interesting article from 1888 on how the Inuit played some sort of Ice-Hockey in Igloos... "The igloo which is the funny name of tho ice-house of the Eskimo, is the narrow playground of the children when the snow is deep and the weather is bitter cold." "The minds of the boys of the polar world run to sports that suits their natures. They are generally found in the open air. no matter how cold it is. At night when the moon is full, and when the snow resembles a vast field of burnished! silver, a company of Eskimo boys will engaged in a game of ball. The ball sometimes is as large as a boy's head., and is covered with a piece of hide sewed with sinews. Each boy carries a crooked stick, which is the rib-bone of some arctic animal; and thus accounted, the whole company will play ball among the drifts till tired" "Don't they ever lose the ball?" asked Benny."Very seldom. Now and then it is knocked into an opening in the ice,and, if it be a deep one, the little fellows go home sorrowful without their plaything. Then they get together in an ice-hut and make another ball." Iron County register. (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.), June 14, 1888 http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024283/1888-06-14/ed-1/seq-3/ Also some Pre-Columbian skating references from the Inuit of Alaska. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james laverance Posted November 16, 2016 Author Share Posted November 16, 2016 Here a link to how the inuit lived in igloos from Sunday, November 05, 1899 Philadelphia...pl_011152016_2132_46716_194.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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