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The Point Barrow Expedition

by John Murdoch

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  1. 1Note
  2. 2Epigraph
  3. 3Epigraph — Introduction
  4. 4Situation and Surroundings
  5. 5Climate
  6. 6The People
  7. 7Psychical Characteristics
  8. 8Tribal Phenomena
  9. 9Social Surroundings
  10. 10Natural Resources
  11. 11Plants
  12. 12Minerals
  13. 13Culture
  14. 14Habitations
  15. 15Household Utensils. For Holding and Carrying Food, Water, etc.
  16. 16Clothing
  17. 17Personal Adornment
  18. 18Footnotes 1-272
  19. 19Ethnological Results of the Point Barrow Expedition — Implements fo…
  20. 20Weapons
  21. 21Hunting Implements Other Than Weapons
  22. 22Methods of Hunting
  23. 23Implements for Fishing
  24. 24Flint Working
  25. 25Fire Making
  26. 26Bow-and-arrow Making
  27. 27Footnotes 273-410
  28. 28Ethnological Results of the Point Barrow Expedition — Skin-working
  29. 29Manufacture of Lines of Thong
  30. 30Builders’ Tools
  31. 31Tools for Snow and Ice Working
  32. 32Implements for Procuring and Preparing Food
  33. 33Making and Working Fiber
  34. 34Means of Locomotion and Transportation
  35. 35Hunting Scores
  36. 36Games and Pastimes
  37. 37Toys and Sports for Children and Others
  38. 38Music
  39. 39Art
  40. 40Domestic Life
  41. 41Rights and Wrongs
  42. 42Social Life and Customs
  43. 43Customs Concerning the Dead
  44. 44Government
  45. 45Religion
  46. 46Footnotes 411-641
  47. 47For Tools 187-190
  48. 48Description of Eskimo Bracer 210 — Description of Eskimo Seal Dart…
  49. 49Description of Eskimo Lamp 108…
  50. 50Eskimo Bolas for Catching 244-246 — Work Consulted 21 — Cited on Es…
  51. 51For Harpoon Heads 247-251 for Trinkets 323-326
  52. 52Implements of the Deceased Buried With Him 424, 426…
  53. 53Sleds Used for 82
  54. 54Eskimo, Number of Births of 38-39, 414, 419… — Burial of 426-427
  55. 55Style of 110-138…
  56. 56For Dressing Deerskins 300, 301 · Description of Eskimo Houses by 7…
  57. 57Works Consulted 21… — Cited on Mortuary Customs of Eskimo 424, 425,…
  58. 58Description of Eskimo House by 77 — Description of Fire-Making by E…
  59. 59Eskimo Villages at 43 — Of Ivory 103
  60. 60With Flint and Steel 291
  61. 61For Eskimo Whale Harpoons 236, 246-247
  62. 62Cited on Eskimo Bows 200 — Cited on Eskimo Arrows 205
  63. 63Retrieving 230-231 for Thrusting 233-240
  64. 64For Eskimo Tool Bags 190 for Eskimo Seal Drags 237-239 for Eskimo D…
  65. 65Cited on Eskimo Reindeer-Hunting 256 — Cited on Float for Whaling 2…
  66. 66Description of Eskimo House by 77… — Quoted on Eskimo Amulets 441
  67. 67Description of Eskimo kû´dyĭgi 80 — Description of Eskimo Tattooing…
  68. 68Plans of 72, 73, 77… — Built of Bones 77
  69. 69The Whale 272-276 Fowl 276-278
  70. 70Cited on Eskimo Frocks 118 — Cited on Eskimo Harpoons 222, 243 — De…
  71. 71Method of Using 150-151 of Slate, for Men 151-155 of Whalebone 155…
  72. 72Cited on Eskimo Archery 207 — Cited on Eskimo Bolas 246 — Cited on…
  73. 73Eskimo Fishing in 58 — Cited on Eskimo Knives 161… — Quoted on Eski…
  74. 74Visit of, to Point Barrow, Alaska 52 — Cited on Eskimo Reindeer Hun…
  75. 75Cited on Eskimo Basket Weaving 326 — Of Bone 97-99
  76. 76Netting, of the Eskimo 312-313
  77. 77For Catching Fish 284-286 — Describes Bone-Crushers of Eskimo 96… —…
  78. 78Population of 43 — Description of 79
  79. 79Cited on Eskimo Diet 61… — Cited on Eskimo Amulets 436, 440
  80. 80Nomenclature of the Eskimo People 46-48, 51… — Quoted on Eskimo Amu…
  81. 81Cited on Eskimo Wolf-Killer 259 — Cited on Eskimo Burials 427
  82. 82Eskimo Terms for 70
  83. 83Cited on Eskimo Fire-Making 290
  84. 84Cited on Eskimo Bird Darts 214 — Works Consulted 24… — Description…
  85. 85Rôle of the Wizards or Shamans in 430-131…
  86. 86Cited on Eskimo Burials 426 — Works Consulted 24, 25…
  87. 87Cited on Eskimo Diet 62
  88. 88Calls for Decoying 253-254… — Eskimo Superstition Concerning Skulls…
  89. 89Visit to Point Barrow 52, 53… — Cited on Eskimo Demonology 431, 433
  90. 90Visit of, to Point Barrow 52… — Quoted on Eskimo Salutation 422
  91. 91Fireplace of 81 — Plan of 82 — Windows of 82 — Used as Storehouses…
  92. 92Cited on Eskimo Pathology 40 — On the Occasion of a Death 423-424 o…
  93. 93Used as Summer Dwellings 83 — Construction of 84 — Used for Women D…
  94. 94Eskimo Terms for 71 — Introduction of Among the Eskimo 71-72
  95. 95Adzes 165-172… for Snow and Ice Working 304-309
  96. 96Teetotums 378 — Buzzes 378 Whizzing-Sticks 379 Pebble-Snappers 379…
  97. 97Description of Eskimo Lamps 108… — Cited on Eskimo Ornament 390
  98. 98Slung-Shot 191…
  99. 99Eskimo Method of Hunting 263-264 · Prostitution Among 419 — Errors…

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