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

[370]. Dr. Richardson believes that the hunting grounds of families are kept sacred among the Eskimo. Searching Expedition, vol. 1, pp. 244, 351. See also, the same author’s paper, New Philosophical Journal, vol. 52, p. 323.

[371]. Northwest Passage, Appendix, p. 387.

[372]. Rae, Narratives, etc., p. 135.

[373]. Klutschak, “Als Eskimo,” etc., p. 131.

[374]. Dall, Alaska, p. 147.

[375]. Vega, vol. 2, p. 130. Compare the custom observed in Baffin Land, of sprinkling a few drops of water on the head of the seal before it is cut up, mentioned by Hall, Arctic Researches, p. 573.

[376]. Contributions, p. 57.

[377]. Hall, Arctic Researches, pp. 507 and 578, with diagrams.

[378]. Hooper, Corwin Report, p. 25.

[379]. Compare Egede, Greenland, p. 102. The whale “can’t bear sloven and dirty habits.”