Eskimo String Figures
- ISBN-10
- 0660024160
- ISBN-13
- 9780660024165
- Category
- History / Polar Regions
- Pages
- 192
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1924
- Publisher
- Acland
- Author
- Diamond Jenness
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