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Ethnology of the Ungava district, Hudson Bay territory / Lucien M. Turner ; introduction by Stephen Loring.
- Title
- Ethnology of the Ungava district, Hudson Bay territory / Lucien M. Turner ; introduction by Stephen Loring.
- Author
- Turner, Lucien M. (Lucien McShan)
- Publication
- Washington, DC : Smithsonian Institution Press, c2001.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Loring, Stephen, 1950-
- Description
- xxxii, [8] p. of plates, [189] p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Classics of Smithsonian anthropology
- Uniform Title
- Classics of Smithsonian anthropology.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Folklore
- Note
- "Originally published in 1894 in the Smithsonian Institution's Eleventh Report of the Bureau of Ethnology"--T.p. verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Fort Chimo and the surrounding region 167 -- Climate 172 -- Auroras 173 -- Vegetation 173 -- Animal life 174 -- Mammals 174 -- Birds 175 -- Native inhabitants of the country--general sketch 175 -- Eskimo 175 -- Indians 181 -- Special account of the people around Fort Chimo 184 -- Koksoagmynt 184 -- Physical characteristics 184 -- Diseases 187 -- Marriage 188 -- Children 190 -- Burial customs 191 -- Religion 193 -- Outdoor life 202 -- Tattooing 207 -- Clothing 208 -- Dwellings 223 -- Household articles 228 -- Food and its preparation 232 -- Tobacco and snuff 234 -- Means of transportation 235 -- By water 235 -- On land 240 -- Weapons and other hunting implements 246 -- Hunting 249 -- Miscellaneous implements 252 -- Amusements 254 -- Art 259 -- Story-telling and folklore 260 -- Origin of the Innuit 261 -- Coming of the white people 261 --
- Origin of living things on the earth and in the water 261 -- Origin of the guillemots 262 -- Origin of the raven 262 -- Origin of the quadrangular spots on the loon's back 262 -- Origin of the gulls 263 -- Origin of the hawks 263 -- Origin of the swallow 263 -- Hare 263 -- Wolf 263 -- Lice 263 -- Origin of mosquitoes 264 -- Story of the man and his fox wife 264 -- Rivals 264 -- Jealous man 264 -- Story of the orphan boy 265 -- Origin of the sun, moon, and stars 266 -- Auroras 266 -- Sky 266 -- Winds 267 -- Nenenot or "Naskopie" 267 -- Principal characteristics 267 -- Clothing 281 -- Preparation of the skins for clothing 292 -- Dwellings 298 -- Sweat houses 300 -- Household utensils, etc 300 -- Tobacco and pipes 302 -- Means of transportation 304 -- By water 304 -- By land 308 -- Weapons 312 -- Hunting 316 -- Miscellaneous implements, tools, etc 317 --
- Amusements 320 -- Festivals 322 -- Folklore 327 -- Story of the wolverine and the brant 327 -- Story of the wolverine 327 -- Deer and the squirrel 328 -- Young man who went to live with the deer 328 -- Wolf's daughter going to seek her lover 330 -- Devil punishing a liar 333 -- A wolverine destroys his sister 333 -- Rabbit and the frog 334 -- Wolverine and the rock 336 -- Creation of people by the wolverine and the muskrat 338 -- Origin of the whitish spot on the throat of the marten 338 -- Indian and his beaver wife 339 -- Venturesome hare 340 -- Spirit guiding a child left by its parents 342 -- Fate of two Indian men 343 -- Starving wolverine 345 -- Starving Indians 349.
- ISBN
- 1560989653 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2001020345
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library