76c Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-18 



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

 49-50; difference ia language of, 244; taboo observed by, 184; manner of greeting strangers 

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



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



Nioholls, Prof. A. G., on syphiletic lesion, 15c. 



Noahognik, location of, 16. 



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

 grounds of, 35, 36. 



Nose, haemorrhage of, 44b; measurements of, 64b et seq.; shape of, 43b. 



Occlusion, tjrpe of, 59c. 



Odour of Eskimos, 39b. 



Offering^ at meals, 178. 



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



Okauvarvik, harbour at, 25; as gathering-place of PuivUk Eskimos, 25, 35, 111. 



Orbital index, 44c. 



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



Packing, in summer, 88, 133, 137. 



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



stance of, 203. 

 Palato-maxillary index, 48c. 

 Pallik, location of, 18. 

 Pallirmiut, 36, 124. 

 PaUirmiut of Hudson bay, 49, 86. 

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



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

 Parry archipelago, stone houses in, 57, 68. 



Parry, measiurements of, 47b; on Eskimo method of wearing hair, 40b; on eyes of Eskimos, 42b. 

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

 Peace signs, 55. 



Peck, Rev. E. J., on graves, 176. 



Philhps, 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 murderers by, 96, 242; dis- 

 covery 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, 63-54, 184; trade in, 44, 52, 53, 54; suspension in snow-hut of, 62; in 



summer, 98, 130. 

 Pottery, among western Eskimos, 44. 

 Praver 190 



Present's, Eskimo attitude towards, 30, 89-90; food, 56, 90, 112, 116. 

 Probe, for sounding snow, 113, 118. 



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, 106. 

 Puivlik, 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, 60-52, 



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

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

 Pyorrhoea, absence of, among EskimoSj 64c. 

 Pjrrites, sources of, 23, 108, 139; used m making fire, 108. 



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Queen Maud's sea, islands in, 244. 



