EKKHS: Artifacts
You remember Dr. Kane speaks of "our figure-head--the fair Augusta, the little blue girl with pink cheeks, who had lost her breast by an iceberg, and her nose by a nip off Bedevilled Reach," which the men removed, and brought home with them? The other evening as I entered the reading-room of the Mercantile Library, what should I see but this identical figure-head, standing on one of the tables. Ordinary in itself, and battered by a hundred rude knocks, it had little merit as a work of art; but what piece of sculpture could in any wise compare with it in point of interest? That face had looked upon the mystic regions of the North, which few eyes have ever seen; had borne many a "nip" from the crushing bergs; and faced many a driving storm. It had witnessed the sufferings, the heroic endurance, the unflinching devotion to duty of those noble men, in their vain search for a lost navigator. It was not strange that an almost reverential feeling came over me as I looked upon "our Augusta.": WILLIE H. COLEMAN.
Kane's Meerschaum Pipe
Kane Memorial Announcement
Merry Christmas!
Our Walrus
Flag carried by Peary, Presented to Kane Lodge in 1896.
Peary's Presentation of his Flag to Kane Lodge