Ethnological results of the Point Barrow expedition / Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1887-1888, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1892, pages 3-442

by John Murdoch

[219]. Vega, vol. 2, p. 98.

[220]. Nordenskiöld, Vega, vol. 2, p. 100 and Fig. on p. 57; Dall, Alaska, p. 379 and plate opposite. I also noticed this dress at Plover Bay in 1881. Compare also Krause Brothers, Geogr. Blätter, vol. 5, No. 1, p. 5, where the dress along the coast from East Cape to Plover Bay is described as we saw it at Plover Bay.

[221]. Vol. 1, p. 137.

[222]. Voyage to Hudsons Bay, p. 136.

[223]. Nordenskiöld, Vega, vol. 2, p. 98.

[224]. Monographie, etc., p. xv.

[225]. Compare Parry, 2d Voy., p. 494, where a similar habit is mentioned at Iglulik.

[226]. Dall, Alaska, pp. 23, 152, and 153. He speaks of the thumb (p. 23) as “a triangular, shapeless protuberance”; a description which applies well to those in our collection.

[227]. MacFarlane MS., and Petitot, Monographie, etc., p. xv.

[228]. Bessels, Naturalist, vol. 18, p. 865.