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This photo is adorable. A Greenlandic Inuit boy with his dog, with a sod house in the background. Taken by Rutherford Platt, probably in 1947.
(Check out his awesome polar bear pants!)
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This photo is adorable. A Greenlandic Inuit boy with his dog, with a sod house in the background. Taken by Rutherford Platt, probably in 1947.

(Check out his awesome polar bear pants!)

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    • #bowdoin
    • #cute
    • #dog
    • #greenland
    • #inuit
    • #schooner bowdoin
    • #vintage
    • #polar bear pants
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