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in reply to a message by Rachel Bz.
This will probably be buried in time, its Feb 2021.
Nantook was a documentary from the 1920s about a "backwards" eskimo man who was wholly ignorant of civilization to the point he bit into a phonograph record when it was presented to him. It created a small sensation when made.
Later on it is known to have been a doctored documentary with "Nantook" being a fairly regular person if just living in the polar north.
The name may have been imagined or a native eskimo name.
Nantook was a documentary from the 1920s about a "backwards" eskimo man who was wholly ignorant of civilization to the point he bit into a phonograph record when it was presented to him. It created a small sensation when made.
Later on it is known to have been a doctored documentary with "Nantook" being a fairly regular person if just living in the polar north.
The name may have been imagined or a native eskimo name.
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