THE ULU, OR WOMAN'S KNIFE, OF THE ESKIMO. 415 



perpetuates for cuttiug leather au implement designed to be used with 

 skins from which the hair has not been removed. 



The kitchen chopper represents a very different conception, no less 

 than the continuation of a structure with great modification of func- 

 tion. It is still the woman's knife deprived of nearly all its ancient 

 and primitive offices, consigned to a single one which it scarcely had at 

 the beginning. From this we are led to the reflection that it is easier 

 to change the culture of women than the culture of men. Civilization 

 lifts up savagery almost exclusively through womeu. Men go down in 

 the struggle, can not learn occupations diametrically opposite to those 

 they have been pursuiug, and occupations which through generations 

 they have considered degrading. 



LIST OF SPECIMENS ON WHICH THIS INVESTIGATION WAS BASED. 



From the foundation of the National Museum many friends have 

 brought specimens from the Eskimo region. The obligations of every 

 student are due and can not be too emphatically expressed to Feuckuer, 

 Bessels, Turner, Kumlieu, Miiutzer, Boas, Hall, McFarlane, Ross, Ken- 

 nicott, Ray, Murdoch, Hereudeen, Stouey, Baker, Dall, Elliott, Nelson, 

 Applegate, Johnson, Fisher, McLean, Swau, and others not now re- 

 called. The Alaska Commercial Company has lost no opportunity to 

 help in the matter and has gathered on the west coast one of the best 

 series of Eskimo objects in the world. The accompanying list does not 

 include every specimen in the museum ; it embraces only those on which 

 this investigation was based. 



Mus. Cat. 

 No. 



Locality. 



By whom col- 

 lected. 



Mus. Cat. 

 No. 



Locality. 



By whom col- 

 lected. 



1630 



Anderson River. . 



McFarlane. 



38255 



L. Yukon River. . . 



Nelson. 



2272 



....do 



Do. 

 Do. 



38366 

 43432 



Newlukh 



St. Michaels 



Do. 



58i3 (440) 



McKenzio, Ander- 



Do. 





son River. 





43866 





Do. 



7419 



Fort Anderson 



Do. 



43959 



Nubviakchuliak . . 



Do. 



10215 (21) 



Repulse Bay 



Hall. 



44180 



Cape Darby 



Do. 



20844 



Kootznoo Indians 



Swan. 



44598 



Cape Nome 



Do. 



24353 



Norton Island 



Turner. 



45489 



St. Michaels. 



Do. 



24365 



...do 



Do. 



46256 





Dall. 



24365 



St. Michaels 



L. M. Turner. 



48257 



Nunivak. 



Nelson. 



24376 



....do 



Turner. 



W. A. Mintzer. 



48823 



(7168) 

 48841 



Rasb. Yukon 



....do -. 



Do. 





Cumberland Gulf. 

 ...do 



Do. 



29973 







33628 

 33744 



St. Michaels 



do 



Nelson. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 



,7168) 

 48831 



55916 



55916 



55918 



55918 



....do 



Bristol Bay 



....do 



Do. 



33745 



St. Michaels 



Norton Sound 



McKay. 

 Do. 



33766 



....do 



Do. 



36316 



....do 



Do. 



37327 

 37744 

 37960 

 38129 



Agiukchuguluk . . 



Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do, 



55918 

 56660 

 63765 



....do 



Do. 



Ifagamut 



Nulokh 



Point Barrow 



Hotham Inlet 



Ray. 

 Nelson., 



