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1885 : 86 " Verbinden wir dieses mit dem Umstande, dass die Sagen 

 der Ungava-Eskimos stets nach Norden iiber die Hudson-Strasse 

 verlegt werden, dass man im Baffin-Lande stets iiber die Fury- und 

 Hecla-Strasse fort nach Siiden als dem Schauplatz alter Sagen 

 liinweist, und dass die westlichen Eskimos ebenso den Osten als das 

 Land ihrer sagenhaften Helden und Stamme betrachten, so gewinnt 

 die Vermuthung an Walirscheinliehkeit, dass im Westen des Hudson- 

 Bay-Gebietes die Heimath der weitverbreiteten Stamme zu suchen 

 ist." 



Chamberlain, 1889 : 87 " In a paper read before the Institute last 

 year (Proc. Can. Inst,, 3d. ser., Vol. V., Fase. i.. October, 1887, p. 70), 

 I advanced the view that instead of the Eskimo being derived from 

 the Mongolians of northeastern Asia, the latter are on the contrary 

 descended from the Eskimo, or their ancestors, who have from time 

 immemorial inhabited the continent of America." 



Boas, 1901 : 88 "All these data seem to me to prove conclusively that 

 the culture of the Alaskan Eskimo is very greatly influenced by that 

 of the Indians of the North Pacific coast and by the Athapascan 

 tribes of the interior. This is in accord with the observation that 

 their physical type is not so pronounced as the eastern Eskimo type. 

 1 believe, therefore, that H. Rink's opinion of an Alaskan origin of 

 the Eskimo is not very probable. If pure type and culture may be 

 considered as significant, I should say that the Eskimo west and 

 north of Hudson Bay have retained their ancient characteristics more 

 than any others. If their original home was in Alaska, we must add 

 the hypothesis that their dispersion began before contact with the 

 Indians. If their home was east of the Mackenzie, the gradual dis- 

 persion and ensuing contact with other tribes would account for all 

 the observed phenomena. * * * On the whole, the relations of 

 North Pacific and North Asiatic cultures are such that it seems 

 plausible to my mind that the Alaskan Eskimo are, comparatively 

 speaking, recent intruders, and that they at one time interrupted an 

 earlier cultural connection between the two continents." 



To which he adds in the second part of this work, 89 speaking of the 

 Eskimo taboos : " It may perhaps be venturesome to claim that the 

 marked development of these customs suggests a time when the Es- 

 kimo tribes were inland people who went down to the sea and gradu- 

 ally adopted maritime pursuits, which, however, were kept entirely 

 apart from their inland life, although in a way this seems an attrac- 

 tive hypothesis. 



■' Virchow, R., Eskimos. Verta. Berl. <3es. Anthr., etc., 1885, p. 1G."> (with Z. Etbnol., 

 1885, xni). 



87 Chamberlain, A. F., The Eskimo Race and Language. Proc. Can. Inst.. VI, p. 281. 

 Toronto, 1889. 



88 Boas, P., Eskimo of Baffin Land and Hudson Bay. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., xv, pp. 

 369-370. 1907. 



M Ibid., xv, pt. 2, pp. CG9-570. 1907. 



