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Gambling, 221. 



Game animals, 15; disputes concerning ownership of, 90. 



Games, chap, xvii; children's, 115, 138, 218-220. 



Gathering-places of Eskimo groups, 15, 16, 19, 25, 33, 35, 37-39, 110, 246. 



Geology, general character of, 14, 17-18, 21, 22, 25, 26. 



Giants, belief in, 180. 



Girling, Rev. H., 8, 9; on Polphin and Union strait Eskimos, 36; on Kiglinirmiut, 39; on creation 

 of new Eskimo groups, 39; on Ekaluktomiut, 40; on Kanghiryuarmiut, 41; on Coppermine 

 river route, 19; on marriage of cousins, 84; on marriage by capture, 160; on respect for 

 mothers, 170; on hunter's scars, 114; establishment of mission by, 242. 



Graves, 175-176; stone cairns used as, 29, 50, 174; avoidance of, 174, 177. 



Great Bear Lake, visits of Eskimos to, 19, 20, 47, 124. 



Groups, instability of, 32, 36; classification of, 33-42; creation of new, 39; homogeneity of, 42; 

 intercourse of, 24, 25, chap, iv; assembling of, 125; rearrangements of, 116; disbandment 

 of, 122. 



Gulls, eating of, 105; trapping of, 133; towels from skins of, 105, 106. 



Gymnastics, 222. 



Hanbury, explorations of, 30-31; on Eskimo groups, 39; on the country of Asiak, 23, 40; on the 



route to Akilinnik river, 48; on snow-huts in spring, 77. 

 Hanerak, 23, 34. 



Haneragmiut, extinction of, 34, 140; intercourse with other groups of, 24, 36, 50. 

 Hansen, Lieutenant, encounter with Eskimos of, 40, 246. 

 Health of Eskimos, 42-43, 245, 249. 

 Hearne, Samuel, journey of, 28; on salmon fishing, 123. 

 Heather, for fuel, 14 et passim; for curing sn6w-blindness, 171. 



Hepburn island as gathering-place of Pingangnaktomiut, 38, 39, 110; old houses near, 246. 

 Holm, on size of Eskimo family, 163. 

 Honesty of Copper Eskimos, 30, 235-236. 

 Hornby, J., at Great Bear lake, 31. 

 Houses, see Dwellings. 

 Hudson bay, journeys to Coronation gulf from, 30, 31; contact with Copper Eskimos of natives 



of, 48, 49; peace sign in, 55; stone houses in, 58; snow houses in, 77. 

 Hudson Bay Company, establishment of posts of, 31, 242, 248. 

 Hunting, chap, xi; part of sexes in, 88; weapons used in, 145; distances travelled while, 124; 



taboos on, 185. 



Ice, thickness in lakes of, 153; water from sea, 107; fishing through holes in, 153-154. 



Igloryuallik as gathering-place of Eskimos, 39, 110. 



Implements, for sealing, 113; for hunting, 145; for fishing, 153; broken on grave, 174, 176; 



introduction of new, 242. 

 Incantations, 187; to weather, 187; to Kannakapfaluk, 188. 

 Independence of Eskimos economically, 89. 

 Indians, trade of Eskimos with, 19-20, 37, 47; conflicts of Eskimos and, 28, 47; hunting method 



of, 146; dancing of, 208; Eskimos afraid of, 124. 

 Indicators for seals, 113. 



Infanticide, 91; frequency of, 166; decrease of, 249. 

 Infirm, care of, 86, 95, 236. 

 Inhabitants, earlier, 56, 58, 248. 

 Inheritance, -92. 



Inland Eskimos, see Backs river Eskimos. 

 Inman river, ruins near, 56. 

 Intercourse of Copper Eskimos, with western Eskimos, 28-29, 44-47; with inland Eskimos, 



48-49; with eastern Eskimos, 49-50; with each other, 24r-25, 32, 34, 36, 40, chap, iv, 116, 



Intonation of voice, variation in, 42. 



Jamieson islands, natives at, 8, 13, 38; old houses on, 246. 



Johansen, Mr. F., description of country by, 26; meets Eskimos in Wilbank bay, 38. 



