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

[478]. See Hooper, Tents, etc., p. 195, and Nordenskiöld, Vega, vol. 2, p. 96, where one of these shoes is figured.

[479]. See Kumlien, Contributions, p. 42.

[480]. Vega, vol. 2; p. 95.

[481]. See Dall, Alaska, pp. 163 and 166.

[482]. Vega, vol. 2, p. 95, foot note.

[483]. For descriptions of the sledges and methods of harnessing used by the eastern Eskimo, see Bessel’s Naturalist, vol. 18, pt. 9, p. 868, figs. 4 and 5 (Smith Sound); Kane, 2d Grinnell Exp., vol. 1, p. 205 (Smith Sound) and first Grinnell Exp., p. 443 (Greenland); Kumlien, Contributions, p. 42, and Boas, “Central Eskimo,” pp. 529-538 (Cumberland Gulf); Parry, 2d voyage, p. 514, and Lyon, Journal, p. 235 (Iglulik); Gilder, Schwatka’s Search, pp. 50, 52, and 66, and Schwatka’s “Nimrod in the North,” pp. 152, 153 (NW. shore of Hudson Bay and King Williams Land).

[484]. This game is briefly referred to by Hall, Arctic Researches, p. 570.

[485]. See Dall, Alaska, p. 389, and contributions to N. A. Ethn., vol. 1, p. 90.

[486]. See Kumlien, Contributions, p. 43. Kumlien says merely “a mask of skins.” Dr. Boas is my authority for the statement that the skin of the bearded seal is used.

[487]. Vega, vol. 2, p. 21.