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Mortality, rate of, 42. 



Mount Barrow, stone cairns around, 29. 



Mourning for dead, 33, 174, 177. 



Murder, cases of, 94-95; frequency of, 96; of missionaries, 31; of Radford and Street, 31; arrest 



of murderers, 96, 242. 

 Musical instruments, 222. 

 Muskrats at Great Bear lake, 185. 

 Musk-oxen, 15, 22; value for food supply of, 48, 105; drives for, 150; use of skins of, 61, 81, 105^ 



trading in skins of, 48, 52, 53; use of horn of, 29, 52, 100. 

 Mythical beings, 50, 179-180, 186-190; dwarfs, 180; giants, 180; tornrin, 58, 180; Kannakapfaluk 



188-189, 206-207; Sila, 189; Nigsillik, 189; PoallentiUik, 189-190. 



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Nagyuktok, uncertain location of, 36-37; woman at Cape Bathurst from, 45. 



Nagyuktomiut, 36; encountered by Franklin, 28; importance in earlier times of, 28, 37; legend 



■ ' concerning, 37, 159. 



Names, 167-168; of dogs, 167; 239; for divisions of country, 15-26; no taboo on names of dead, 



168. 

 Nennitak, 39. 

 Nennitagmiut, 39. 

 Netsilingmiut, knowledge of, 40; location of, 244r-245; intercourse of Copper Eskimos with, 



49-50; difference in language of, 244; taboo observed by, 184; maimer of greeting strangers 



of, 50, 55; cannibalism among, 108; sealing among, 111; shamanism among, 199. 

 Neumann, Dr. D., on interchange of wives, 86. 

 Noahognik, location of, 16. 

 Noahognirmiut, numbers of, 34; encounter with, 55; gathering-places of, 34-35, 110; sealing- 



grounds of, 35, 36. 



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Offerings at meals, 178. 



Okauyak, used for fuel, 98-99, 130, 131. 



Okauyarvik, harbour at, 25; as gathering-place of Puivlik Eskimos, 25, 35, 111. 



Organization, social, chap, vii; seasonal changes in, 143. 



Packing, in summer, 88, 133, 137. 



Palaiyak, as interpreter, 7, 8, 211; encounter with shaman of, 195; opinion on a shamanistic 



stance of, 203. 

 Pallik, location of, 18. 

 Pallirmiut, 36, 124. 

 Pallirmiut of Hudson bay, 49, 86. 

 Parry, on diseases of Eskimos, 43; on fire-making, 108; on Eskimo archery, 145; on thirst of 



Eskimos, 107; on size of Eskimo family, 163. 

 Parry archipelago, stone houses in, 57, 58. 



Passage of snow-hut, shape of, 64, 69, 70, 71; construction of, 61. 

 Peace signs, 55. 



?eck, Rev. E. J., on graves, 176. 



Phillips, Mr. W. G., discovery of ancient houses by, 56. 

 Physical appearance, no marked differences among Copper Eskimos in, 42; difference of eastern 



Eskimos in, 244. 

 Pingangnaktok, location of, 21, 38. 



Pingangnaktomiut, 38; gathering-place of, 110; intercourse with Kilusiktomiut of, 116. 

 Point Clifton, ruins near, 8. 

 Police, Royal Northwest Mounted, visit to Asiak of, 23; arrest of mmrderers by, 96, 242; discovery 



of slaughtered caribou by, 149; visit to Coronation gulf of, 242; establishment of post of, 



242; suppression of infanticide by, 249. 

 Polyandry, rareness of, 162. 

 Polygamy, 158; rareness of, 161. 

 Population, distribution of, chap, iii; dependance on food-supply of, 32; probable decrease in, 



37, 41; origin of present Bathurst inlet, 39—40; total Copper Eskimo, 42. 

 Portages, overland, 15, 16, 21, 22, 25, 27. 

 Pots, manufacture of, 53-54, 184; trade in, 44, 52, 53, 54; suspension in snow-hut of, 62; in summer, 



98, 130. 

 Pottery, among western Eskimos, 44. 

 Prayer, 190. 



Presents, Eskimo attitute towards, 30, 89-90; of food, 55, 90, 112, 115. 

 Probe, for sounding snow, 113, 118. 



