Also we took on board a nice Eskimo called Kakutia, which means something like “He of the Quiet Voice.” He is a fine artist and loves to make drawings of the weapons they use, of the animals and things like that.
We gave him paper and pencils and during two days he worked along and made a fine lot of drawings. Some of them will be used as decorations in the book that will be made from this. It’s great fun to think that my little book about Greenland is to be illustrated, partly, by a real Eskimo, and that the pictures themselves actually were made in the cabin of the Morrissey, here with me and Dad, right in Whale Sound in latitude seventy-eight north.
Later on I found out that Kakutia is the son of Panikpah, whom Captain Bob knows very well. He was one of the Peary men and [[115]]was an artist too. A number of his sketches are used in different Peary books. It’s interesting to see this being able to draw inherited by the son from the father.
We are giving Kakutia a big roll of paper, some pads, pencils and a fine lot of lovely crayons, most of them Crayola given me by Grandpa Bub. He is delighted with all this and I expect will have a lot of fun this winter drawing and coloring pictures. And of course we gave him also useful things, for he has been fine to me. I hope later, by Rasmussen or in some way, to send him copies of the book, for Dad says his name is to appear on the title-page as the one who made the decorations.
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