So they called her “AH´-POO-MIK´-A-NIN-NY” (the Snow Baby), and brought her presents of fur mittens, little sealskin boots, walrus tusks, baby bear and seal skins, and many other things.
It was near the end of the Snowland summer when the baby was born, and six weeks afterwards the sun went away to be gone all through the long winter night of four months.
“Wrapped in the Stars and Stripes”
Just before he went baby was taken for her first outing. It was very, very cold, the thermometer far below the freezing-point, and the ground was covered deep with snow; but baby was tucked into a little reindeer-skin bag, which covered her completely all except her head. This was covered with a little foxskin hood; then baby, bag, and all were wrapped in the stars and stripes, and taken out of doors.
Ahnighito’s Birthplace—“Such a Funny House it was”
Then the sun went away, and for days and weeks baby lived in the little room where a lamp was burning night and day.