INDEX 



Address, maimer of, to children, 168, 239; to dogs, 239, 240. 



Adoption, 91, 165; status of adopted child, 84. 



Aged, treatment of, 236. 



Aivilingmiut, knowledge of, 49; trade with Netsilingmiut of, 245. 



Akilinnik river, overland route to, 48-49, 245, 247; visit of Akilinnik natives to Bernard har- 

 bour, 48, 49. 



AkuUiakattak, location of, 15. 



AkulliaJiattangmiut, 33; intercourse with other groups of, 24, 34, 36, 50, 116; sealing grounds 

 of, 36, 127; gathering-place of, 110, 122. 



Aligattalingmiun, known to Copper Eskimos, 48. 



Ammassalik Eskimos, size of family among, 163. 



Amundsei)., voyage of, 60; on Netsilik EsMmos, 111. 



Anderson, Dr. R. M., journey of, 31; discoveries in Darnley bay of, 29; on Eskimos of Cape 

 Bexley, 33; on stone cairns, 29, 174; on reindeer moss, 98; on appetite of Eskimos, 100; 

 on salt in Eskimo diet, 105; extract from diary of, 176. 



Anialik river, camp at, 38. 



Animals, 15; beliefs concerning, 180-181; propitiation of dangerous, 181; distinction of land 

 and sea, 182-183; as familiars of shamans, 192. 



Appetite of Eskimos, 100. 



Archaeology, 56-58, 245-246, 248. 



Archery, 138, 145-146. 



Arden, Mr. D'Arcy, at Great Bear Lake, 20, 31. 



Armstrong point, expedition base at, 41. 



Asiak, near Coppermine river , 21 ; Asiagmiut, 36. 



Asiak, east of Kent peninsula, 23, 40; trade centre at, 49. 



Asiagmiut, 40, 248; numbers of, 40; route to Aldliimik river of, 48; visits to Coronation guK of, 

 116. 



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Back, journey of, 29; on fish weirs, 157; on use of sling, 145. 



Backs river, inhabitants of, 48, 49, 101; winter hunting of, 101; pastime introduced by, 221 



affiliations of, 248; wanderings of Copper Eskimos to, 125. 

 Baillie island Eskimos, 103; belief of, 114. 



Banks island, ruins on, 46-47; connection with mainland of, 46-47. 

 Barter, see TVade. 



Barter island, ruins at, 7. , 



Bathing, rareness of Eskimo, 137. 

 Bathurst inlet, tomcod fishing in^ 22; murder of Radford and Street in, 31; Eskimos of, 39-40, 



93; repopulation of, 39-40; intonation of voice in, 42; wanderings of natives of, 47; route 



to Akilinnik river from, 48, 247-248; route to Great Bear lake from, 124; difference of beliefs 



in, 189. 

 Bears, brown, 15, 105; experiences of Eskimos with, 151-162. 

 Bears, polar, 62-53; trade in skins of, 62; importance for food of, 101, 105; use of skins of, 130; 



fuel from fat of, 139, 141; hunting of, 124, 139, 152; legend regarding, 179; propitiation of, 



181; taboos concerning, 183. 

 Bearberry, as food, 97. 

 Beds, of skins, 61, 71. 

 Bell island, ruins on, 23, 57. 

 Bernard, Captain Jos. F., explorations of, 31; later explorations of, 243-245; discoveries on 



Victoria island by, 23, 50-51, 57; discovery of graves by, 174-176; on stone huts, 58; archaeo- 

 logical work of, 245-246, 248. 

 Bernard harbour, base of expedition at, 7 et passim; excellence as wintering-place, 16; gathering 



of Eskimos at, 8, 36, 37. 

 Beuchat, Henri, fate of, 7. 

 Beverages, 106-107. 

 Bibliography, 250. 

 Big Stick island, timber at, 20. 

 Birds, kinds of, 15; unimportance to Eskimos of, 16, 106; use of skins of, 106; manner of cooking, 



105; methods of catching, 124, 135, 152; return in spring of, 121; beliefs concerning, 180, 



181; as familiars of shamans, 192. 

 Blood-feud, duty of kinsmen in, 86, 95. 

 Bloody fall, massacre at, 28; salmon-fishing at, 123. 

 Blubber, stormg of, 101, 119, 121, 128; used as fuel, 48, 98, 247; as food, 100; blubber-pounders, 29. 



