CONTENTS 



Sketch ot" the western Eskimo — Coii tinned. 



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Travel and transportation 205 



Sleds 205 



Dog harness and. accouterments 20y 



Breast yokes 211 



Snowshoes 212 



Ice staffs 214 



Ice creepers 215 



Boats 216 



Bout hooks 222 



Paddles 223 



Spear and i)addle guards 226 



Trade and trading Aoyages 228 



Units of value and measurement — Numeration 232 



Units of val ne 232 



Units of measurement 232 



Chronometry 234 



Numeration 235 



Villages and houses 241 



Ruins : 263 



Food 267 



Tobacco and smoking 271 



Methods of using tobacco 271 — 



Tobacco implements 273 



Snuff-boxes 273 



Snuft'-tubes 275 



Boxes for fungus ashes 277) 



Quid boxes 278 



Pipes 280 ■ 



Tobacco bags 284 — ' 



Honse-lile and social customs 285 



The kashim , . 285 



Sweat baths 287 



Dwelling houses 288 



Childbirth 289 



Puberty 291 



Marriage - 291* 



Moral characteristics 292 



Treatment of disease 309 



Mortuary customs ... 310 



Totems and family marks 322 •- — 



Wars : 327 c^ 



Games and toys 330 



Music and dances 347 



Feasts and festivals 357 - 



The function of the celebrations 357 



Calendar of festivals 357 



The "Inviting- in" feast 358 



The "Asking" festival 359 



The trading festival 361 



Feasts to the dead 363 



"%v Mortuary feasts in general 363 



"^ Great feast to the dead 365 - 



Masks and maskettes 393 



Other ceremonial objects 415 



Religicm and mythology 421 



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