Editing Diamond Jenness (section)

=== Family and childhood ===
Diamond Jenness was the second youngest son in a middle-class family of ten children. His father's profession was that of a watchmaker/jeweler, though he also installed several clocks in municipal building towers in New Zealand. The family was encouraged to read, learn music, and engage in sports. Richling, in his biography “In Twilight and in Dawn,” writes that the young Jenness “was a proficient outdoorsman and an accomplished sharpshooter,” skills that helped prepare him for his experience in the arctic years later.<ref name="Rich">{{Cite book|last=Richling|first=Barnett|title=In Twilight and in Dawn: A Biography of Diamond Jenness (Volume 67) (McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies)|publisher=McGill-Queen's University Press|year=2012|isbn=978-0773539815|location=Montreal, Quebec|pages=8–11|language=English}}</ref>