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Walliak, location of, 18, 36. 



Walliarmiut, 18, 36. ' 



Water, methods of obtaining, 107. 



Weapons, see Implements. 



Weather, beliefs concerning, 179, 180; incantation for, 187. 



Weirs, for trapping salmon, 92, 155-156, 201-202. 



Whales, 46; use of bone of, 131. 



Whetstones, 21. 



White men, beliefs concerning, 50, 180; influence of, 240-242, 248-249; as familiars of shamans, 



191; trade with, see Trade. 

 Widows, fate of, 163. 

 Wilkins, Mr. G. H., discoveries of, 45-47; on population of Prince Albert sound, 41; on spearing 



of salmon, 166; on Eskimo marriage, 159; on a grave, 175-176; on shamanism, 201-202. 

 Will, belief in projection of, 229. 



Willow, size of, 14, 21; for bedding, 61, 71; for fuel, 79 et passim; tinder from seeds of, 108. 

 Winds, prevailing, 13-14; beliefs concerning, 180. 

 Wind-breaks, 58-59, 79, 106, 128, 131; for sheltering corpse, 174. 

 Windows, of ice, 62-63, 116, 142; ignorance of gut, 63. 

 Wise point, trading-place at, 44, 51. 

 Witchcraft, 196-197. See Magic. 



Wives, status of, 162; interchange of, 74, 85-86, 238-239. 

 Wolverines, 15, 105; precautions against, 121. 

 Wolves, 15, 105; capture in pits of, 151; propitiation of, 181. 



Woman, position of, 162; work of, 87-88; ownership of property by, 88-89; as sign of peace, 55. 

 Wood, scarcity of, 14; Eskimo journeys for, 19, 48, 53; sources of, 20, 48, 56; trade in objects of, 



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