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between its variegated manifestations. It is not yet clear how near 
the spiritual and social forms of the Eskimo stand to those of their 
neighboring folks, the Indians on the one side, and the north eastern 
Asiatics on the other. However, to confine myself to the Eskimo, I 
believe that I have shown that at least a part of the morphological 
traits of the Eskimo culture as we have found it in Greenland are 
secondary or younger, in other words, derived from those we know 
from the Alaskan Eskimo.’ The place of origin must lie at the most 
westerly end of the chain. 
However, quite aside from the historical connection, which will 
perhaps always remain unexplained, these manifestations, these texts, 
bear in themselves a very interesting witness of the intellectual powers. 
and literary faculties among a single ancient tribe of true Americans. 
I repeat them as I heard them 
From the lips of Nawadaha, 
The musician, the sweet singer. 
1 See in particular here my introductory remarks to nos. 218, pp. 408—409; 214. 
Do. SHOOK BOI amd 215, ID BVII—BOWs Gi, also First Part, jo, 716—717. 
