The central Eskimo

Boas, Franz 1858-1942 (Author).

Summary: This account of the Central Eskimo contains chiefly the results of the author’s own observations and collections made during a journey to Cumberland Sound and Davis Strait, supplemented by statements made by other travellers.

Record details

ISBN: 877370079
Physical Description: 401-675 p. : ill., maps, music ; 21 cm.
print
Edition: [Facsim. ed.].
Publisher: Toronto, ON : Coles, 1974, c1888.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"Originally published as a part of the 6th annual report (1884-85) of the Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1888."

Includes index.

Includes Eskimo music (unacc.)

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction to the Coles Canadian Collection edition -- Introduction -- Authorities quoted -- Orthography -- Geography of Northeastern America -- Distribution of the tribes -- General observations -- Baffin Island -- The Sikosuilarmiut -- The Akuliarmiut -- The Qaumauangmiut -- The Nugumiut -- The Oqomiut -- The Pilingmiut -- The Sagdlirmiut -- Western shore of Hudson Bay -- The Aivillirmiut -- The Kinipetu or Agutit -- The Sagdlirmiut of Southhampton Island -- The Sinimiut -- Boothia Felix and Back River -- The Netchilirmiut -- The Ugjulirmiut -- The Ukusikaslirmiut -- Smith Sound -- The natives of Ellesmere Land -- The North Greenlanders -- Influence of geographical conitions upon the distribution of the settlements -- Trade and intercourse betwen the tribes -- List of the Central Eskimo tribes -- Hunting and fishing -- Seal, walrus, and whale hunting -- Deer, musk ox, and bear hunting -- Hunting of small game -- Fishing -- Manufactures -- Making leather and preparing skins -- Sunday implements -- Transportation by boats and sledges -- The boat -- The sledge and dogs -- Habitations and dress -- The house -- Clothing, dressing of the hair and tattooing -- Social and religious life -- Domestic occupations and amusements -- Visiting -- Social Customs in summer -- Social order and laws -- Religious ideas and the angakunirn (priesthood) -- Sedna and the Fulmar -- The tornait and the angakut -- The flight of the moon -- Kadlu the thunderer -- Feasts, religious and secular -- Customs and regulations concerning birth, sickness and death -- Tales and traditions -- Ititaujang -- The emigration of the Sagdirmiut -- Kalopaling -- The Uissuit -- Kivung -- Origin of the narwhal -- The visitor -- The fugitive women -- Quanudjnq: I. Story of the three brothers -- II. Qaudjaqdjuq -- Igimarasudjuqdjuaq the Cannibal -- The Tornit -- The women and the spirit of the singing house -- The constellation Udleqdjun -- Origin of the Adlet and the Qudlunait -- The great flood -- Inugpadjuqdjualung -- The bear story -- Sunday tales -- The owl and the raven -- Comparison between Baffin Land traditions and those of other tribes -- Science and the arts -- Geography and navigation -- Poetry and music -- Merrymaking among the Tornit -- The Lemming's song -- Arlum pissinga (the killer's song) -- Summer song -- The returning hunter -- Song of the tornit -- Song of the inuit traveling to Nettilling -- Oxaitoq's song -- Utitiaq's song -- The fox and the woman -- The raven's song -- Song of a padlimio -- Ititaujang's song -- Playing at ball -- Glossary: Eskimo words used, with derivations and significations -- Eskimo geographical names used, with English significations -- Appendix.