Index 275 



Property, 88-92, 160; kinds of, 88-92; amount of, 89; inheritance of, 92; laid on grave, 174-176. 



Psychology of Eskimos, chap, xviii. 



Ptarmigan, hunting of, 105, 129, 136; towels from skins of, 63, 105, 108. 



PuivlDs, location of, 24. 



Puivlirmiut, first encounter with, 55, 93; settlements of, 76; summer wanderings of, 101-102, 



123, 125-142; gathering-places of, 34, 110; intercourse with Kanghiryuarmiut of, 24, 50-52, 



131-132, 224r-226; intercourse with other groups of, 116 et passim. 

 Punishment, for crime, 94-96; of children, 169. 

 Pyrites, sources of, 23, 108, 139; used in making fire, 108. 



Q 



Queen Maud's sea, islands in, 244. 



R 



Radford, H. V., murder of, 31; avoidance of death-place of, 174. 



Rae, explorations of, 29-30; on honesty of Eskimos, 30, 235-236. 



Rae river, description of, 18; immigrations to, 44; Eskimos of, 29, 36. 



Rainbow, belief concerning, 179, 180. 



Reincarnation, no beliei in, 168, 177. 



Reindeet moss, as food, 97-98. 



Relationship, terms of, 83-84; strength of ties of, 85, 86; special types of, 86-87. 



Religion, chaps, xiv, xv, xvi; stunting of intellectual growth by, 224. 



Remains, between Cape Pairy and Coronation gulf, 28-29. See Ruins. 



Richardson, explorations of, 28-29; discoveries of, 44; on Eskimo hunting, 148. 



Rifles, effect of introduction of, 89, 96, 101, 104, 119, 144; eagerness of Eskimos to acquire, 241; 



trading in, 48; superseding of bows by, 248. 

 Roscoe river, ruins near, 56. 

 Routes of trade, along coast to west, 44; via Banks island, 45-47; to Great Bear lake, 19-21, 



47; to AkUinnik river, 48-49, 53, 246-247; along coast to east, 50; from Prince Albert sound, 



50-53, 246-247. 

 Ruins, at Barter island, 7; on Banks island, 45-47; between Cape Lyon and Cape Krusenstern, 



56, 245; in Coronation gulf, 246; on Victoria island, 50-51, 246. 



Salmon, migration of, 15, 16 et passim; spearing of, 123, 201-202; weirs for, 92, 103, 155-156 



201-202. 

 Schwatka, on contact with Coronation gulf, 41. 

 Sculpins, spearing of, 103, 141. 

 Seals, abimdance of, 15 et passim; varieties of, 17; shooting of bearded, 112, 119-120, 141; 



propitiation of, 114, 178, 181; taboos regarding, 182-183; eating of meat of, 100 et passim 



eating of skin of, 100, 107; mythical, 180. 

 Sealing, with harpoon, 112-114; commencement of season for. 111; sealing-grounds, 17, 26; 



part of sexes in, 88. 

 Stances, 188, 189, 191, 193-217, chap, x passim. 

 Seasons, 13-14. 



Settlements, nature of winter, 76; relationship of inhabitants in, 86; ancient, 46, 56, 245, 248. 

 Sewing, as woman's work, 88; in autumn, 142; taboos on, 110. 115, 183-184, 188-189, 196. 

 Sexes, proportion of, 42; division of labour between, 87-88, 158; differences in clothing of, 109. 

 Shades, 178, 186-187; conception of , 178; causing bad weather, 180, 214; causing illness, 171-172, 



204, 213-215; vengeance of, 177, 185; propitiation of, 178, 181; controlled by shamans, 



191, 207; fate after death of, 177; of animab, 181. 

 Shamans, 191-217; stances of, see Stances; acquisition of power by, 92. 191-192; status of, 93-94, 



194-196; property rights of, 92; employed in sickness, 92, 171-173, 178, 213, 214r-215; 



taboos imposed by, 185; contest with spirits of, 187, 192-193; spirits controlled by, 191; 



wind controlled by, 180; transformations of, 191, 193-194; miracles of, 197-202; oracles of, 



209-211; genuineness of, 194, 196, 216-217. 

 Shelters, 58, 131, 134; for hunting, 27, 45, 128, 141. See Wind-breaks. 

 Sickness, treatment of, 171-173, 198. 

 Signals in hunting, 136, 147-148. 

 Simpson, 44. See Dease and Simpson. 

 Skins, drying of, 119, 139. 

 Sleds, travelling with, 116-119; loading of, 116-117; caching of, 123, 130; hunting on, 147; ice 



on runners of, 52, 116, 118-119, 127, 129; whale bone runners of, 131; mud shoeing of, 116, 



130, 141, 142; improvised, 130, 140. 

 Sleeping platform, construction of, 61 ; arrangement of family on, 72-73, 85. 

 Slings, 145. 

 Snares, for birds, 135, 152; for squirrels, 124, 152. 



