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13

Today in Smithsonian History: July 13, 1974

A woman participates in the blanket toss, a game in the World Eskimo Olympics at the 1974 Festival of American Folklife.

A woman participates in the blanket toss, a game in the World Eskimo Olympics. (Photographer unknown, as featured in the Torch, July/August 1974)

July 13, 1974 The 1974 Festival of American Folklife contained programs on Working Americans, Native Americans, and Old Ways in the New World.  The World Eskimo Olympics took place as part of the program on this date.

Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives

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