A PRELIMINARY CATALOGUE OF THE ESKIMO COLLECTION IN THE U, S, 

 NATIONAL MUSEUM, ARRANGED GEOGRAPHICALLY AND BY USES. 



By Lieut. T. Dix Bolles, U. S. Navy. 



The list here presented is intended to be of service as an introduction 

 to a complete analysis of Eskimo art. 



The collection is made up of the smaller collections of E. Macfarlane, 

 Capt. E. P. Herendeen, R. Kennicott, C. F. Hall, Prof. W. H. Dall, T. 

 H. Bean, E. W. Nelson, L. M. Turner, L. Kumlein ; Lieut. George M. 

 Stoney, U. S. Navy 5 Captain Hooper, U. S. Revenue Marine; Lieut. O. 

 L. McKay, U. S. Revenue Marine; Lieut. P. H. Ray, U. S. Army; Henry 

 W. Elliott; Sergt. S. Applegate, U. S. Signal Corps; William J. Fisher, 

 and others. 



Nearly two years have been occupied by the compiler in reaching a 

 result which he trusts will aid the student who may be inclined to an 

 exhaustive comparison between the various villages or the Indian tribes 

 whose boundaries touch the Eskimo territory. 



The nomenclature is that of Ivan Petroff, from his chart in vol. viii, 

 Tenth Census Report. Differences in spelling and even in names made 

 it necessary to adopt some writer's plan in its entirety, even if some 

 errors were evident. Petroff seems to me the most accurate and also 

 has more or less official status. 



In many cases the focation or use of an object was wrongly given by 

 collectors ; this was misleading at first, but before long the multiplica- 

 tion of these errors caused serious confusion. These have been placed 

 in their proper locality. 



In the following table of places the geographical arrangement follows 

 the coast-lines from east to west and south, taking in the outlying 

 islands, etc., as they occur geographically. 



Although similarities in many or even all respects may point to a 

 closer connection between vicinities which are only a few miles apart, 

 these may be separated in the list by a number of geographically- coast- 

 line-following places ; no attempt to follow these similarities will be 

 made here. 



Latitudes and longitudes are given to facilitate identification. The 

 numbers in the columns express the whole number of specimens from 

 a locality. 



In the resume' at the end the writer notes the total number of arti- 

 cles handled, located, arranged, marked, and labeled. 



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