[810] H. P. Steensby, "Contributions to the Ethnology and Anthropogeography of the Polar Eskimos," Meddelelser om Grönland, XXXIV. 1910.
[811] H. P. Steensby, loc. cit. p. 384.
[812] Loc. cit. pp. 366, 376.
[813] V. Stefánsson, My life with the Eskimo, 1913, p. 194 ff.
[814] F. Boas, "The Eskimo," Annual Archaeological Report, 1905, Toronto (1906), p. 112 ff.
[815] A. G. Morice, "Notes on the Western Dénés," Trans. Canadian Inst. IV. 1895; "The Western Dénés," Proc. Canadian Inst. XXV. (3rd Series, VII.) 1890; "The Canadian Dénés," Ann. Arch. Rep. 1905 (1906), p. 187.
[816] From the Nootka word potlatsh, "giving" or "a gift," so called because these great winter ceremonials were especially marked by the giving away of quantities of goods, commonly blankets. Cf. J. R. Swanton in Handbook of American Indians (F. W. Hodge, editor), 1910.
[817] Besides C. Wissler, loc. cit. p. 457 and A. G. Morice, loc. cit., cf. J. Jette, Journ. Roy. Anthr. Inst. XXXVII. 1907, p. 157; C. Hill-Tout, British North America, 1907; and G. T. Emmons, "The Tahltan Indians," Anthr. Pub. University of Pennsylvania, IV. 1, 1911.
[818] C. Wissler, loc. cit. p. 454.
[819] J. G. Frazer, Totemism and Exogamy, III. 1910, p. 319.