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This chapter documents the taxidermy and exhibition of the sled dogs who had reached and returned from the South Pole, and who had died in Argentina. Included in the documentation is the attempted preservation of the dog skins in Buenos Aires, the transportation of the dog skins to Norway, the taxidermist’s challenging work to restore the decaying skins, and the public exhibition of the sled dogs at the Zoological Museum in Kristiania and later as part of the Ski Association’s Jubilee Exhibition of 1914, which celebrated the 100-year anniversary of Norway’s constitution. Personal and official letters of correspondence from Roald Amundsen, Leon Amundsen, and The Association for the Promotion of Skiing, as well as reference to the letters from the Norwegian Expedition’s ship captains, from February 1913 to October 1914, are used to tell this part of the history—specifically how the dogs were used after their deaths.
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Amundsen Letters of Correspondence, Manuscripts Collection. Oslo: National Library of Norway.
City of Oslo, Agency for Outdoor Recreation and Nature Management. Frogner Park. https://www.bymiljoetaten.oslo.kommune.no/getfile.php/friluftsetaten%20(FRI)/Internett%20(FRI)/dokumenter/x/Frognerparken_brosjyre_eng_web.pdf Accessed 6 Aug 2014. https://www.oslo.kommune.no.
Tahan, M. R. (2019). Roald Amundsen’s Sled Dogs: The Sledge Dogs Who Helped Discover the South Pole. Cham: Springer International Publishing.
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All Roald Amundsen letters of correspondence quoted in this chapter, written from and to Roald Amundsen and Leon Amundsen, are in the Manuscripts Collection at the National Library of Norway (NB) in Oslo. (The excerpts quoted were translated from the original Norwegian for the author by Anne Melgård during the author’s research at the National Library of Norway.)
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L. Amundsen to R. Amundsen, letter, 10 March 1913, NB Brevs. 812:3 “R.A. 6”.
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L. Amundsen to R. Amundsen, letter, 11 March 1913, NB Brevs. 812:3 “R.A. 6”.
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L. Amundsen to R. Amundsen, letter, 23 May 1913, NB Brevs. 812:1.
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Foreningen Til Ski-Idrættens Fremme [The Association for the Promotion of Skiing]/ K. V. Amundsen to L. Amundsen, letter, 29 April 1914, NB Brevs. 812:1.
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Foreningen Til Ski-Idrættens Fremme [The Association for the Promotion of Skiing]/ O. T. Klingenberg to R. Amundsen, letter, 16 October 1914, NB Brevs. 812:1.
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Foreningen Til Ski-Idrættens Fremme [The Association for the Promotion of Skiing] to R. Amundsen, letter, 19 October 1914, NB Brevs. 812:1.
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Tahan, M.R. (2021). Stuffed in Kristiania: The South Pole Dog Skins. In: The Return of the South Pole Sled Dogs. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65113-8_18
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